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Nawt Vaya, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. The Survey maps it on the San Pedro quadrangle.

Nawt Vaya within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Nawt Vaya between 1992 and 2016, burning about 662 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Other causes1
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
20 September 1995Smoking1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
7 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePOZO HONDO
14 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyCOYOTE FIRE
7 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
27 July 2003Natural1.0 acresPapago AgencyHAZEFIRE
1 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyCAFE
5 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyKING
3 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyPANTAK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima 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 Nawt Vaya: 8 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Manganese, Copper, Silver, 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
Bonanza MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Molybdenum, ZincPast ProducerBornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Malachite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
El Conquistadors ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
Roadside MineCopper, Silver, Gold, MercuryOccurrenceCinnabar, Copper, Mercury, Tetrahedrite
Roadside MineCopper, Gold, Mercury, SilverPast Producer
South ProspectCopper, SilverPast Producer
Black BearManganeseOccurrence
Coyote Mtn ManganeseManganeseOccurrence
Russell Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Coyote Claim - Roadside MineCopperOccurrenceVein
North ProspectCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nawt Vaya in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2015LightningNawt Vaya1 hurtA man was struck and injured by lightning near Three Points.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNawt Vaya$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a power pole near Highway 86 and San Pedro Rd.
August 2014Flash FloodNawt Vaya-Over 2 inches of rain caused significant flooding of route 286 about halfway between Three Points and Sasabe, near mile post 24. Roads were also flooded near and west of Arivaca.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
San Pedro3.5 miles21
Pan Tak4.3 miles19
Uhs Kug5.7 miles17
San Vicente8.0 miles19
Three Points9.8 miles21
Robles Junction9.9 miles21
Corner Windmill10.7 miles21
Diamond Bell Ranch11.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24530. 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.