Old Columbine, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Safford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85546. It lies near Webb Peak. The Survey maps it on the Webb Peak quadrangle. It stands 9,360 feet above sea level.

Old Columbine within Graham County

On record in Old Columbine

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

Heliograph Lookout Complexlisted 1988
Webb Peak Lookout Towerlisted 1988

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1942 USGS Mt. Graham quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1945 USGS Mt. Graham quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Webb Peak quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1994 USGS Safford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Webb Peak quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Old Columbine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,392 acres in total. 112 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	112
Recreation and ceremony	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	GUY FIRE
9 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	DEADMAN
6 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	GRAND
23 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	CUNNINGHAM
22 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	MEADOW
2 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	MOONSHINE CREEK FIRE
2 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	LEE FIRE
17 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	SHINGLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Bonita

Every fire recorded in Graham County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Old Columbine: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Beryllium, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Twilight and Grey Claims	Beryllium, Mica	Occurrence	Beryl, Mica

Every working recorded in Graham 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Turkey Flat	7.0 miles	16
Bonita	8.7 miles	14
Swift Trail Junction	10.5 miles	11
Lebanon	10.6 miles	11
Artesia	10.7 miles	11
Cactus Flat	10.8 miles	14
Thatcher	12.6 miles	13
Central	12.7 miles	13

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 Q16896104

The 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 8941. 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.