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Legend Estates, Arizona

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85035. The Survey maps it on the Fowler quadrangle.

Legend Estates within Maricopa County

On record in Legend Estates

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

2,760 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,760 fires within 5 miles of Legend Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 298 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 35 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/undetermined2684
Arson/incendiarism35
Natural34
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Debris and open burning1

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
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department335425
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office154835
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office154836
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122598
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111668
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111667
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department333529
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department334367

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Legend Estates: 9 producers, 4 past producers, 2 plants, 1 unknown. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay, Vermiculite. 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
Zonolite Co.VermiculitePlant
Gold Bond Building Products Div.Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Phoenix BrickyardClayPlant
Phoenix PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Tolleson Clay PitClayProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Phoenix Redi-Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Phoenix S&R, Agua Fria Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reeves Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel

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
Young America Homes0.6 miles27
Catalina Village0.6 miles27
Parkwood0.8 miles27
Capri Village0.9 miles27
Sunburst Homes1.8 miles27
La Terraza1.9 miles27
Centura West1.9 miles27
Trail Inn Lodge1.9 miles26

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 Q122558784The 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 24924. 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.