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.
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
Edward L. Jones Houselisted 1996- Connor-Harold Houselisted 2023
- Glaus Houselisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresParadise 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12,820 | |
| 2020 | 12,658 | -162 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 25 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 Camelback quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Camelback quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Camelsback quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1930 USGS Cave Creek quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Cave Creek quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Paradise Valley quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1971 USGS Paradise Valley quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Theodore Roosevelt Lake quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
688 since 2009Regional 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/undetermined | 658 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | AZ-133139 |
| 7 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | AZ-142071 |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | 241628 |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | AZ-101891 |
| 4 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | AZ-142064 |
| 4 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | AZ-122828 |
| 4 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | AZ-122593 |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | AZ-111655 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giacoma Claims | Copper | Unknown | ||
| Scottsdale Plant | Flagstone, Slate, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Seal Rock Group | Kyanite, Mica, Mercury | Occurrence | Cinnabar, Kyanite, Mica | |
| Sealrock Group | Mercury, Mica, Kyanite | Unknown | ||
| Silica Occurrence | Silica | Occurrence | Quartz | |
| Boulder Group | Mercury | Unknown | ||
| Cram Gold Standard | Mercury | Prospect | ||
| Mercury Group | Mercury | Prospect |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cinco Soles | 0.7 miles | 25 | |
| Las Villas | 1.3 miles | 25 | |
| Santo Tomas | 1.8 miles | 25 | |
| Windemere | 2.0 miles | 25 | |
| Woodleaf | 2.1 miles | 25 | |
| Clearview Hills | 2.3 miles | 25 | |
| McCormick Ranch | 2.6 miles | 25 | |
| Scottsdale | 2.8 miles | 25 |
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 Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q983750 | 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 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.












