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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.

Pima within Graham County

Population over time

2 figures

Pima 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,387
20202,847+460 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

9 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined5
Natural2
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1

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
6 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresGila District OfficeRIVER
23 July 1994Natural40 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
2 July 1994Fireworks5.0 acresGila District OfficeBONITA II
26 June 2008Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestWHITE STREAKS
23 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresGila District OfficeFARM ROAD
15 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
28 May 2004Debris and open burning96 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBRYCE
27 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHUBBARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Graham County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jumping JackIronProducerMagnetite
Rhoades-MathewsBentoniteProspect
Rhodes-MathewsBentoniteOccurrence
Bold ClaimsCopperProspect
Cobre ClaimsCopperProspect
Dixie ClaimsCopperProspect

Every working recorded in Graham County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Flash FloodPima1 killed, $5,000Heavy 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 2019LightningPima1 hurtA child was injured while swimming in Cluff Lake after lightning struck the water.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPima$10,000Numerous large trees downed along with a railroad crossing arm damaged due to severe wind gusts in Pima, AZ.
August 2004Flash FloodPima$10,000Highway 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 2002Thunderstorm WindPima$3,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPima$2,000Thunderstorms wind gusts damaged a railroad arm in Pima and downed two trees that in turn, fell on and damaged a fence.
August 2022Flash FloodPima-Heavy rain of 1.5 in less than 1 hour caused flash flooding in Pima, AZ. Highway 70 became flooded and impassable.
November 2016Flash FloodPima-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 2006Flash FloodPima-Highway 70 was flooded 2 miles west of the Town of Pima.

Every storm recorded in Graham 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
Dublin0.4 miles11
Glenbar2.2 miles11
Bryce2.3 miles11
Central2.7 miles13
Kimball2.8 miles11
Graham4.8 miles12
Thatcher4.9 miles13
Eden5.7 miles11

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 PimaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q734341The 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.