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Palo Verde Stand, 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. It stands on Gu Achi Wash. The Survey maps it on the Santa Rosa quadrangle.

Palo Verde Stand 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

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Palo Verde Stand between 1993 and 2013, burning about 447 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresPapago AgencySAN LUIS
2 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyANEGAM03
15 July 2003Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSTANFIELD MARSH
4 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyRTE15-24
4 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresPapago AgencyANEGAM02
2 June 1995Debris and open burning260 acresPapago AgencyPALOVERDE5
19 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePapago AgencyAGENT
14 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyMANDRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Palo Verde Stand: 9 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Tungsten, Geothermal. 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
Arizona Hill Top MinesCopper, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectGoldOccurrenceVein
Gossan No 4CopperUnknown
Gossan No. 4 ProspectCopper, UraniumOccurrenceChrysocolla, Malachite
ThanksgivingTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
ThanksgivingTungstenOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
Gossan 14 ClaimUraniumOccurrence
Hill Top Uranium ClaimUraniumOccurrence

Every working 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
Santa Rosa1.0 miles14
Achi1.1 miles14
Ali Oidak2.3 miles14
Anegam2.5 miles14
Ak Chin3.6 miles14
Makgum Havoka5.7 miles15
Noipa Kam7.1 miles14
Hoi Oidak8.8 miles15

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 Q122551413The 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 9153. 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.