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Mesa del Caballo, Arizona

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Payson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85541. It lies near Houston Mesa. The Survey maps it on the Payson North quadrangle. 781 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,170 feet above sea level.

Mesa del Caballo within Gila County

Population over time

2 figures

Mesa del Caballo grew from 765 to 781 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
2010765
2020781+16 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

332 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 332 fires within 5 miles of Mesa del Caballo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 833 acres in total. 77 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined150
Natural77
Recreation and ceremony50
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Debris and open burning7
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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 2009Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestMAYFIELD
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTonto National ForestYERBA
8 September 1995Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestCAVE
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePayson Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
5 September 2017Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestGUIDE
5 September 2009Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestFREEDOM
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Mesa del Caballo: 9 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Copper, 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
Ezell ClaimsSilverProspect
Grand PrizeGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Luper ClaimsSilver, LeadProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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
Freedom Acres2.2 miles23
Wonder Valley2.2 miles23
Star Valley2.9 miles23
Flowing Springs2.9 miles23
Beaver Valley Estates3.5 miles23
Diamond Point Shadows3.9 miles25
Payson4.1 miles22
Fort McDonald4.5 miles22

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 Mesa del CaballoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6011276The 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 40822. 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.