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Noipa Kam, Arizona

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 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 Window Mountain quadrangle.

Noipa Kam within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Noipa Kam between 2001 and 2014, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
4 July 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeGARRET
25 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRAVINE
18 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePETERS
14 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyARCHIE WOOD
3 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyBABY SNAKE
15 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencySRBS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Noipa Kam: 4 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Geothermal, 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
Brownell MineSilver, Copper, GoldProducerCopper, Hematite, Pyrite
By Chance MineCopper, Silver, Gold, UraniumPast Producer
Man's Dream MineCopper, SilverProducerCopper
Gossan No. 4 ProspectCopper, UraniumOccurrenceChrysocolla, Malachite
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
Gossan No 4CopperUnknown
Unnamed ProspectGoldOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Noipa Kam in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindNoipa Kam$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed nine power poles south of Santa Rosa. Power was out in several villages for two hours.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindNoipa Kam$3,000Thunderstorm winds blew down two power poles along Indian Route 15 near Ak Chin village.

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
Oit Ihuk5.6 miles14
Santa Rosa6.3 miles14
Ali Oidak6.7 miles14
Palo Verde Stand7.1 miles14
Ak Chin7.4 miles14
Achi8.2 miles14
Maish Vaya8.2 miles14
Anegam8.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 32340. 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.