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Love, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Parker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85357. The Survey maps it on the Socorro Peak quadrangle. It stands 1,972 feet above sea level.

Love within La Paz County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Love between 1993 and 2020, burning about 926 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined600 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
24 July 2006Natural4.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeGLAD
27 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictWIMMER
2 June 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeSOUTH LONE
18 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBAIT
24 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeWEST BOUND
21 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresColorado River DistrictDEL MONTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Paz County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Love: 5 unknowns, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Copper, Gold, Silver. 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
Huthmacher MillTungstenPast Producer
San Marcos MineGold, Silver, Copper, IronPast ProducerGold, Silver, Specularite
Gold Leaf GroupGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
San Marcos MineGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown

Every working recorded in La Paz 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
Wenden4.5 miles17
Salome9.3 miles17
Harcuvar11.8 miles17
Hope15.4 miles16
Vicksburg16.9 miles16
Bush Pit17.5 miles16
Vicksburg Junction18.4 miles16
McVay20.1 miles16

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 Q16894361The 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 24499. 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.