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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.

Oro Valley within Pima County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Oro 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.

YearPeople Change
201041,011
202047,070+6,059 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

133 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined103
Natural21
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestALAMO
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Fire Rescue District1829223
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Fire Rescue District1810915
13 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolder Ranch Fire District1826246
7 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Fire Rescue District189813
31 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Fire Rescue Districtnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dumar ClaimsUraniumProspect
El Oro GroupCopper, Gold, SilverUnknown
Unnamed Prospect Ml10CopperOccurrenceVein
Unnamed Prospect Ml108CopperOccurrenceUnknown
Unnamed Prospect Ml11CopperOccurrenceVein
Unnamed Prospect Ml17CopperOccurrenceVein
Unnamed Prospect Ml18CopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Ml48CopperOccurrenceUnknown
Unnamed Prospect Ml54CopperOccurrenceVein
Unnamed Prospect Tn1CopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1996Thunderstorm WindOro Valley-no account filed

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
Tucson National Estates4.1 miles20
Tortolita4.3 miles19
Casas Adobes4.9 miles26
Valley View5.0 miles26
Orange Grove Estates6.2 miles20
Oracle Foothills Estates6.3 miles26
Skyline Bel Aire Estates6.4 miles26
Kino6.4 miles20

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 ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q986523The 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.