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Maricopa, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Maricopa-Stanfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85138. The Survey maps it on the Maricopa quadrangle. 58,125 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,175 feet above sea level.

Maricopa within Pinal County

Population over time

2 figures

Maricopa grew from 43,482 to 58,125 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201043,482
202058,125+14,643 (+34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Maricopa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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/undetermined121
Arson/incendiarism20
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3

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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-132238
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101279
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-132240
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-133112
23 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-132239
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101277
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-110758
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101278

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Maricopa: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pinal County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maricopa in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2007: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMaricopa$100,000Winds damaged or destroyed 6 mobile homes
December 2007Funnel CloudMaricopa-The Pinal County Sheriffs office took several reports of a funnel cloud west of Maricopa.
March 2005Funnel CloudMaricopa-Short-lived funnel cloud sighted near Maricopa, moving north.
April 2004Tornado (F0)Maricopa-Short-lived weak tornado seen over open land.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMaricopa-Trees down.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindMaricopa-Power lines reported down on a house in Maricopa.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMaricopa-Power lines were reported down in the area between Casa Grande and Stanfield after high winds ripped through much of Northwest Pinal County.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMaricopa-Trees uprooted in Stanfield, dust storm with near zero visibility in dust and rain near Stanfield.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindMaricopa-Near zero visibility with dense blowing dust.
September 1995Thunderstorm WindMaricopa-Convective winds blew the roof off of a small building in the town of Maricopa.
July 2004HailMaricopa-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindMaricopa-no account filed
July 1996HailMaricopa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pinal 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
Ak Chin2.2 miles22
Ak-Chin Village3.0 miles22
Heaton4.8 miles22
Maricopa Wells7.4 miles22
Enid8.2 miles22
Sacate8.4 miles22
Casa Blanca9.5 miles19
Bon9.5 miles18

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 MaricopaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79877The 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 7694. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.