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Lower Miami, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Globe-Miami census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85539. It lies near Porto Rico Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Globe quadrangle.

Lower Miami within Gila County

On record in Lower Miami

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

10 surveys from 20 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Lower Miami between 1992 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined55
Natural31
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTri-City Fire Districtnot named
8 September 1997Natural155 acresTonto National ForestMUSKHOG
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestBEAUTY
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTonto National Forestnot named
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTri-City Fire District2703
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGlobe Fire Department1433
25 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGlobe Fire Department1418
25 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTri-City Fire District2663

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 109 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 109 workings within 5 miles of Lower Miami: 55 past producers, 30 producers, 12 prospects, 9 occurrences. 32 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Manganese, 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
Apache MineVanadium, Lead, Molybdenum, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, Semiprecious GemstonePast Producer1875, 1929, 1957
Azurite MineClayOccurrence
Buffalo MineSilver, CopperPast ProducerReplacement
Cedar Tree DepositSilver, Copper, Gold, TungstenPast Producer
Copper Cities & Diamond HCopper, Gold, Zinc, Silver, Molybdenum, Lead, Uranium, GemstonePast Producer1896
Copper HillCopper, Silica, Silver, UraniumPast Producer
Cyprus MiamiCopper, Molybdenum, Silver, Gold, Rhodium, Zinc, Lead, PGEProducer1872, 1915
Day Peaks Area VeinsMolybdenum, Lead, Tungsten, GoldOccurrenceVein
Defiance LeadLead, Copper, Gold, Zinc, Tungsten, VanadiumPast Producer
Dixon GroupCopper, AsbestosPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gila 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
Claypool0.8 miles20
Miami0.9 miles20
Miami Gardens1.5 miles20
Inspiration1.5 miles23
Midland City1.7 miles20
Little Acres2.0 miles20
Central Heights2.2 miles20
Burch2.9 miles20

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 Q122593519The 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 31369. 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.