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Paradise Valley, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85253. It lies near Mummy Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Paradise Valley quadrangle. 12,658 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.

Paradise Valley within Maricopa County

On record in Paradise 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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Paradise Valley fell from 12,820 to 12,658 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
201012,820
202012,658-162 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

688 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 688 fires within 5 miles of Paradise Valley between 2009 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined658
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural12
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-133139
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-142071
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office241628
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101891
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-142064
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122828
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122593
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111655

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa 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 Paradise Valley: 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Copper, Flagstone, Slate, Dimension, Silica. 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
Giacoma ClaimsCopperUnknown
Scottsdale PlantFlagstone, Slate, DimensionProducer
Seal Rock GroupKyanite, Mica, MercuryOccurrenceCinnabar, Kyanite, Mica
Sealrock GroupMercury, Mica, KyaniteUnknown
Silica OccurrenceSilicaOccurrenceQuartz
Boulder GroupMercuryUnknown
Cram Gold StandardMercuryProspect
Mercury GroupMercuryProspect

Every working recorded in Maricopa 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
Cinco Soles0.7 miles25
Las Villas1.3 miles25
Santo Tomas1.8 miles25
Windemere2.0 miles25
Woodleaf2.1 miles25
Clearview Hills2.3 miles25
McCormick Ranch2.6 miles25
Scottsdale2.8 miles25

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 Paradise ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q983750The 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 9197. 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.