Mexican Town, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Ajo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85321. It lies near Concentrator Hill. The Survey maps it on the Ajo South quadrangle.

Mexican Town within Pima County

On record in Mexican Town

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 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Curley Schoollisted 2008 · 0.2 miles away
Ajo Townsite Historic Districtlisted 2001 · 0.3 miles away
John and Isabella Greenway Houselisted 1998 · 0.4 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

1932 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1967 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
1990 USGS Ajo South quadrangle1:24000
1996 USGS Ajo South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Mexican Town between 1995 and 2017, burning about 41 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	FINLEY
2 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Phoenix District Office	AJO
1 August 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
19 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	CORNELIA
29 March 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge	LITTLE TULE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Mexican Town: 10 occurrences, 7 producers, 4 past producers, 3 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Copper, Gold, Silver, Gold, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ajo District	Gold, Silver, Copper, Molybdenum, Zinc, Gemstone, Titanium, Niobium (Columbium), Iron	Producer	PORPHYRY CU, VEINS
Cardigan Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold	Producer
Cardigan Mine	Silver, Gold	Past Producer
Copper Giant Prospects	Copper, Iron	Occurrence	Chrysocolla, Malachite, Specularite
New Cornelia Ajo	Copper, Zinc, Silver, Molybdenum, Gold, Semiprecious Gemstone, Iron, Niobium (Columbium), Titanium, Rubidium	Past Producer	1750, 1917, 1985
Old Hickles Property	Copper, Silica, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Old Hickles Property	Copper, Silver, Gold, Silica	Occurrence
Right On Group	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Quartz	Occurrence
Right On Group	Copper, Gold, Silica	Unknown
Bonnie Lee Group	Copper, Silica	Unknown

Every working recorded in Pima 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ajo	0.3 miles	17
Gibson	0.9 miles	17
Rowood	0.9 miles	17
Chico Shunie	5.2 miles	17
Childs	5.9 miles	17
Why	9.7 miles	14
Sikort Chuapo	10.8 miles	14
Hoa Murk	12.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 7966. 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.