BlockBefore

Miracle Valley, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Bisbee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85615. The Survey maps it on the Nicksville quadrangle. 571 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Miracle Valley within Cochise County

Population over time

2 figures

Miracle Valley fell from 644 to 571 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
2010644
2020571-73 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Miracle Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,183 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined46
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFry Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
10 September 2007Naturalunder an acreGila District OfficeSCOUT
7 August 1994Naturalunder an acreCoronado National MemorialBOUNDARY-E
6 August 1992Natural1.0 acresGila District OfficeHEREFORD
17 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFry Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
9 July 2013Naturalunder an acreGila District OfficeSPLASH
9 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeKIT
7 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictMIRACLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Miracle Valley: 8 producers, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium. 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
Corbett Marble QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Happy DayUraniumProspect
Double Mill Ranch WellGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Cochise 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
Palominas1.9 miles19
Hereford5.0 miles19
Stark6.2 miles17
Nicksville6.5 miles19
Black Bear Spring7.2 miles23
Sierra Vista Estates9.0 miles23
Bledsoe9.4 miles23
Ramsey9.6 miles23

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 Miracle ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17081458The 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 39214. 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.