Oro Valley, Arizona
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tucson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85737. It lies near Catchment canyon. The Survey maps it on the Oro Valley quadrangle. 47,070 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,620 feet above sea level.
On record in Oro Valley
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 1 record
Steam Pump Ranchlisted 2009
Population over time
2 figuresOro Valley grew from 41,011 to 47,070 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 41,011 | |
| 2020 | 47,070 | +6,059 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:125000
- 1905 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Mount Lemmon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Oro Valley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1994 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Oro Valley quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
133 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Oro Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 126,627 acres in total. 21 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/undetermined | 103 |
| Natural | 21 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Coronado National Forest | ALAMO |
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 28 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Fire Rescue District | 1829223 |
| 2 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Fire Rescue District | 1810915 |
| 13 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 1 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Golder Ranch Fire District | 1826246 |
| 7 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Fire Rescue District | 189813 |
| 31 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Fire Rescue District | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Oro Valley: 10 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Copper, Gold, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dumar Claims | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| El Oro Group | Copper, Gold, Silver | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Prospect Ml10 | Copper | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Unnamed Prospect Ml108 | Copper | Occurrence | Unknown | |
| Unnamed Prospect Ml11 | Copper | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Unnamed Prospect Ml17 | Copper | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Unnamed Prospect Ml18 | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect Ml48 | Copper | Occurrence | Unknown | |
| Unnamed Prospect Ml54 | Copper | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Unnamed Prospect Tn1 | Copper | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oro Valley in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oro Valley | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tucson National Estates | 4.1 miles | 20 | |
| Tortolita | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Casas Adobes | 4.9 miles | 26 | |
| Valley View | 5.0 miles | 26 | |
| Orange Grove Estates | 6.2 miles | 20 | |
| Oracle Foothills Estates | 6.3 miles | 26 | |
| Skyline Bel Aire Estates | 6.4 miles | 26 | |
| Kino | 6.4 miles | 20 |
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 Oro Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q986523 | 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 37458. 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.










