Pima, Arizona
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Pima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85543. It lies near Mud Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Pima quadrangle. 2,847 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,838 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPima grew from 2,387 to 2,847 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 | 2,387 | |
| 2020 | 2,847 | +460 (+19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Thatcher quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Pima quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Safford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Pima between 1994 and 2019, burning about 170 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 | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Gila District Office | RIVER |
| 23 July 1994 | Natural | 40 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 2 July 1994 | Fireworks | 5.0 acres | Gila District Office | BONITA II |
| 26 June 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Coronado National Forest | WHITE STREAKS |
| 23 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Gila District Office | FARM ROAD |
| 15 June 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 28 May 2004 | Debris and open burning | 96 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | BRYCE |
| 27 May 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | HUBBARD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Pima: 4 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Bentonite, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jumping Jack | Iron | Producer | Magnetite | |
| Rhoades-Mathews | Bentonite | Prospect | ||
| Rhodes-Mathews | Bentonite | Occurrence | ||
| Bold Claims | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Cobre Claims | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Dixie Claims | Copper | Prospect |
Storms near this place
9 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pima in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 5 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Pima | 1 killed, $5,000 | Heavy rain of 2 to 2.5 fell in less than 2 hours between the Pinaleno Mountains and Highway 70 west of Safford. This caused flash flooding of roads in the Pima area and significant rises in Cottonwood Wash. A large SUV which was attempting to cross the wash and carrying two adults and four children was swept away in the floodwaters. A four-year old girl drown during the rescue attempt. Her body was found four days later downstream in the Gila River near Eden. |
| July 2019 | Lightning | Pima | 1 hurt | A child was injured while swimming in Cluff Lake after lightning struck the water. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pima | $10,000 | Numerous large trees downed along with a railroad crossing arm damaged due to severe wind gusts in Pima, AZ. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Pima | $10,000 | Highway 70, west of the town of Pima, was closed due to flooding of the Matthews wash. Also a swift water rescue was performed when a truck got stuck in the Talley wash near Thatcher. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pima | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pima | $2,000 | Thunderstorms wind gusts damaged a railroad arm in Pima and downed two trees that in turn, fell on and damaged a fence. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Pima | - | Heavy rain of 1.5 in less than 1 hour caused flash flooding in Pima, AZ. Highway 70 became flooded and impassable. |
| November 2016 | Flash Flood | Pima | - | Two to three inches of rain caused Union Canal to overflow into the streets of Pima. In addition, flood damage occurred to cotton that was already harvested and being stored as modules in area fields. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Pima | - | Highway 70 was flooded 2 miles west of the Town of Pima. |
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.
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 Pima | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q734341 | 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 9433. 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.





