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LaLoma Ranch, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85340. It lies near Sunset Point. The Survey maps it on the El Mirage quadrangle.

LaLoma Ranch within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

378 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 378 fires within 5 miles of LaLoma Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined355
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-121611
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111961
4 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAIRLINE CANAL
28 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAvondale Fire and Medical Department232983
27 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAvondale Fire and Medical Department232968
23 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-132203
23 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-121612
22 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-121906

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of LaLoma Ranch: 9 producers, 5 past producers, 4 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Salt, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alonzo Elder Muscovite #1MicaProducer
Luke Salt Body - Southwest Salt MineHalite, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer1968
Halite OccurrenceSaltOccurrence
Solid Salt OccurrenceHaliteOccurrence
Southwest Mine & MillSaltProducer
Southwest SaltSaltProducer
Unidentified Halite OccurrenceHalitePast ProducerHalite
Agua Fria Pit National S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Allied Concrete PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Allied Concrete,Sand & Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Maricopa County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Litchfield Park1.4 miles23
Webb2.7 miles19
McMicken3.8 miles23
Country Greens at Villa de Paz3.9 miles19
Bumstead4.1 miles19
Villa de Paz4.1 miles23
Wayne4.5 miles18
Liberty Village4.5 miles23

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122541356The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 6821. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.