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Patagonia, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Patagonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85624. It lies near CCC Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Patagonia quadrangle. 804 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,055 feet above sea level.

Patagonia within Santa Cruz County

On record in Patagonia

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 4 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Patagonia fell from 913 to 804 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
2010913
2020804-109 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Commercial Hotel, State Route 82 Vicinity, Patagonia, Santa Cruz County, AZ
Commercial Hotel, State Route 82 Vicinity, Patagonia, Santa Cruz County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fort Crittenden (Ruins), Patagonia, Santa Cruz County, AZ
Fort Crittenden (Ruins), Patagonia, Santa Cruz County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Patagonia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,822 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Recreation and ceremony27
Natural12
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
4 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHARSHAW
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoita-Elgin Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
20 August 2009Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeALUM
10 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoronado National ForestSALERO
10 August 2009Natural4.0 acresCoronado National ForestTHREE R
8 July 1993Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestRED
7 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHERO
6 July 2003Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestAZTEC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 79 workings within 5 miles of Patagonia: 40 past producers, 15 producers, 13 prospects, 8 occurrences. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver. 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
Barite OccurenceBarium-BariteOccurrenceBarite
BasinLead, ZincPast Producer
Basin Mine GroupCopper, Silver, Gold, LeadProducer1882, 1885, 1949
Blue Eagle MineCopper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, GoldProducer1897, 1903, 1956
Blue Eagle MineSilver, Copper, Molybdenum, Zinc, Lead, GoldPast Producer
Blue Jay ProspectIron, Aluminum, UraniumOccurrence
Blue Lead MineLead, Silver, Copper, GoldPast Producer1912, 1923
Blue Lead MineLead, Silver, Copper, Gold, ZincPast Producer
Bonnie CarrieLead, Silver, Antimony, Copper, Gold, ZincPast Producer
California MineLead, Silver, Copper, Gold, ZincPast Producer1910, 1920

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patagonia in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 8 flash flood, 8 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
August 2016Flash FloodPatagonia$10,000Three to four inches or more of rainfall in one to two hours caused Sonoita Creek to overflow its banks into parts of Patagonia. Eight mobile homes were evacuated as a precaution with water 18 inches deep surrounding them. An additional 14 homes were also evacuated. Only minimal damage occurred to the skirting of these homes since they were elevated off the surface.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPatagonia$6,000Strong thunderstorm winds near the Town of Patagonia caused a several hundred pound storage shed to be damaged when blown across a yard. Also shingles were torn off several roofs in a neighborhood.
July 2025Flash FloodPatagonia$1,000An estimated 3 ft of water moved across low water crossing on Forest Service 143 Rd.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPatagonia$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed large tree branches at several locations in Patagonia.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPatagonia$1,000Several tree branches and a power line were downed by thunderstorm winds in Patagonia.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPatagonia$300no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPatagonia-A personal weather station gusted to 83 mph in Patagonia, AZ.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPatagonia-CWOP weather station CW4232 recorded a wind gust of 60 mph.
August 2023Flash FloodPatagonia-Heavy rain of 1-2 inches along Sonoita and Harshaw Creeks caused flash flooding of rural roadways east of Route 82 northeast of Patagonia as well as Sonoita Ave in Patagonia.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPatagonia-A thunderstorm wind gust to 73 mph was recorded at CWOP site GW3161 near Patagonia at 1616MST.
July 2021HailPatagonia-A slow moving thunderstorm produced several minutes of nickel to quarter size hail near Patagonia.
July 2014Flash FloodPatagonia-Flash flooding occurred along Red Rock and Harshaw Creeks. Streets in Patagonia were impassable where flood waters crossed up to 2 feet deep.
July 2007HailPatagonia-Hail 1.5 in diameter occurred in Patagonia due to an intense thunderstorm.
July 2006HailPatagonia-Local law enforcement reported one inch (1.00 inch) hail in the Town of Patagonia.
July 2006HailPatagonia-A strong thunderstorm brought hail to the Town of Patagonia, with sizes of hail ranging from a quarter of an inch to over three quarters of an inch. Hail was covering the ground in some locations.
August 2006HailPatagonia-Golf ball size hail was reported in the Town of Patagonia.
August 2006Flash FloodPatagonia-Widespread street flooding occurred in the Town of Patagonia and also in the Town of Rio Rico due to heavy rainfall.
September 2005Flash FloodPatagonia-A trained spotter east of the Town of Patagonia reported that Cimmarron Road was impassable due to flood waters. The same spotter reported that they had received two inches of rain in less than one hour.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindPatagonia-A trained spotter in Patagonia reported a measured thunderstorm wind gust of 59 mph (51 knots).
August 2004Flash FloodPatagonia-Heavy rainfall in Patagonia caused the streets to flood and the garage of the fire station to be flooded. There was not property damage, however the streets where impassable throughout most of the town.
July 2022HailPatagonia-no account filed
July 2003HailPatagonia-no account filed
September 1997Flash FloodPatagonia-no account filed
July 1996HailPatagonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Cruz 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
Trench Camp5.4 miles22
Harshaw5.6 miles22
Alto7.9 miles23
Hacienda Los Encino10.1 miles28
Sonoita11.0 miles28
Washington Camp11.4 miles22
Beyerville12.2 miles20
Duquesne12.2 miles23

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 PatagoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1024689The 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 32726. 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.