BlockBefore

Montclair Terrace, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85032. The Survey maps it on the Currys Corner quadrangle.

Montclair Terrace within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

861 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 861 fires within 5 miles of Montclair Terrace between 1995 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined823
Natural14
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101906
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101907
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department334318
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-142070
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111664
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department330002
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department329248
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Montclair Terrace: 8 unknowns, 6 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Stone. 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
Kruger and Sultan-Pat.#4355 & 1906Gold, Copper, SilverUnknown
Squaw Peak AreaKyanitePast ProducerMetamorphic
Victoria QuicksilverMercury, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Jones-Husted ProspectMercuryOccurrence1916
Mercury GroupMercuryProspect
Nita JeanStoneUnknown
Stone QuarryStonePast ProducerMetamorphic
Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Eskco Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Maricopa 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
Sandalwood0.3 miles26
Rancho Santa Fe0.4 miles26
Paradise Valley Oasis0.7 miles18
Quail Valley0.7 miles26
Palm Lakes Village0.9 miles18
Paradise Valley Miranda1.0 miles26
The Covey1.0 miles25
Shadow Ridge II1.1 miles25

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 Q122556318The 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 24955. 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.