Piedra, Arizona

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Gila Bend census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85337. The Survey maps it on the Theba quadrangle.

Piedra within Maricopa 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.

1950 USGS Theba quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Theba quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Theba quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Gila Bend quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Piedra between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,047 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	4
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Debris and open burning	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
18 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	BEND II
15 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Phoenix District Office	MIDWAY
15 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Central District	GILA CANAL
12 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	SALADO
23 July 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
9 June 2007	Natural	under an acre	Phoenix District Office	BEND
3 June 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Phoenix District Office	MIDWAY
27 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Phoenix District Office	PAINTED ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Piedra: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Theba	4.9 miles	14
Tartron	6.3 miles	15
Smurr	8.9 miles	14
Sentinel	12.5 miles	15
Point of Rocks	13.5 miles	14
Gila Bend	14.5 miles	15
Sil Murk (historical)	14.7 miles	15
San Lucy Village	14.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24561. 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.