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Piato Vaya, 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 lies near Ben Nevis Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Ben Nevis Mountain quadrangle. It stands 2,395 feet above sea level.

Piato Vaya 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Piato Vaya between 1992 and 2017, burning about 626 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony2
Firearms and explosives use1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
24 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSUNLAND
4 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresGreen Valley Fire Districtnot named
22 June 1992Natural45 acresPapago AgencyCOVEREDWEL
10 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined65 acresPapago AgencyPISINEMO
9 May 2009Firearms and explosives use10 acresPhoenix District OfficeWILLOW
4 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyIRON STAND
3 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyBEN NEVIS
21 May 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresPapago AgencyCOVERED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Piato Vaya: 10 past producers, 6 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Barium-Barite, Silver, Gold. 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
Iron HillIronUnknown
Maude HCopper, Gold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Morgan Mine GroupGold, Silver, Lead, CopperProducer1917, 1937
Peer and Peerless GroupSilver, Gold, Barium-Barite, Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer1880, 1892
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
White PrinceBarium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Ben Lomand MinesGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ZincProducer1885
Ben Lomand MinesGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Maud H. MineGold, Silver, Copper, LeadProducer1933
Morgan Mine GroupGold, Silver, Copper, LeadPast Producer

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
Kui Tatk4.2 miles14
Kaihon Kug4.8 miles14
Vainom Kug5.3 miles14
Quijotoa5.4 miles14
Narcho Santos6.6 miles14
Viason Chin7.4 miles14
Sikul Himatk7.9 miles14
Hali Murk8.0 miles14

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 Piato VayaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1455461The 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 24559. 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.