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Leisure World, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85206. The Survey maps it on the Buckhorn quadrangle.

Leisure World within Maricopa County

On record in Leisure World

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

11 surveys from 21 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

376 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 376 fires within 5 miles of Leisure World between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,330 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined361
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Department70804
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Departmentnot named
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMesa Fire and Medical Department70271
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Department70432
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office70124
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeNOT NAMED
25 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Department76300
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Fountain East0.8 miles21
Park Place Travel Resort0.9 miles21
Buckhorn1.2 miles21
Velda Rose Estates1.3 miles21
Velda Rose Gardens1.5 miles21
Desert Vista Recreational Vehicle Resort1.6 miles21
Dreamland Villa1.8 miles21
Fountain of the Sun1.9 miles21

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.

Wikipedia article on Leisure WorldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6520314The 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 43536. 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.