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Pimaco Two, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tucson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85602. The Survey maps it on the Mescal quadrangle. 682 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 4,094 feet above sea level.

Pimaco Two within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Pimaco Two between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,108 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 8 were 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/undetermined141
Equipment and vehicle use23
Smoking23
Natural11
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMescal-J6 Fire Districtnot named
8 September 2001Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTRES ALAMOS
7 September 2009Natural29 acresCoronado National ForestTWIN BUTTES
7 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCORNFIELD
27 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBELL
23 September 1992Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pimaco Two: 3 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Little David ClaimsUraniumUnknown
Unnamed WorkingUraniumProspect
Unnamed WorkingUraniumProspect
Unnamed WorkingUraniumOccurrence
Unnamed WorkingUraniumProspect

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
Pantano7.6 miles20
Harrington Place8.1 miles24
Mountain View12.7 miles23
New Tucson13.5 miles21
Vail15.3 miles23
Rosemont Junction16.9 miles21
Corona de Tucson17.2 miles21
Rosemont Camp17.3 miles21

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 Pimaco TwoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28408The 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 45015. 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.