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Naco, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bisbee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85620. The Survey maps it on the Naco quadrangle. 824 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,610 feet above sea level.

Naco within Cochise County

On record in Naco

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Naco fell from 1,046 to 824 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
20101,046
2020824-222 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Naco between 1993 and 2019, burning about 288 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeARIZONA STREET
27 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
26 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
11 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBisbee Fire Departmentnot named
5 May 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRIVER FIRE
30 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictPURDY
26 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFry Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
14 May 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Naco: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
NacoLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
NacoLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naco in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
July 2005Flash FloodNaco$10,000United States Border Patrol agents from the Naco Border Patrol Station rescued a woman who was trapped in her vehicle in a flooded wash. The woman was trapped by the flood for more than 45 minutes before the officials were notified. When rescuers did arrive the car was surrounded by rising, swiftly running water that was about 2 inches from the top of the car door and above the victims waist inside.
July 2013Flash FloodNaco$5,000Heavy rain caused Purdy Lane to become flooded in Naco. Flood waters entered one home near the roadway.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNaco$3,000Thunderstorm outflow winds damaged several trees in Bisbee. Two shallow-rooted tree were blown down completely. Winds also peeled back roofing material on the patio of one house.
November 2019FloodNaco-Around one inch of rain fell in southern Cochise County during the afternoon of November 27th with a total of 2 to 3 inches of rain by midnight. By mid evening, several roads became impassable. This included Davis Road, King's Highway north of Route 80 and Frontier Road at Double Adobe. Route 80 was closed west of the Mule Pass Tunnel due to a rock slide.
August 2010Flash FloodNaco-Very heavy rainfall fell across portions of southwest Cochise county, especially around the Sierra Vista and Hereford areas. The Department of Highways reported that several roads in Sierra Vista and Hereford had to be closed due to street flooding. In addition, several washes were flooding in the area.

Every storm 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
Bisbee Junction3.5 miles22
Huachuca Terrace4.4 miles24
Don Luis4.9 miles24
Stark5.3 miles17
Corta Junction5.4 miles24
Tintown6.0 miles24
South Bisbee6.1 miles24
Briggs6.3 miles24

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 NacoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1862064The 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 8475. 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.