Pipyak, Arizona

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. The Survey maps it on the Santa Rosa Mountains SE quadrangle.

Pipyak within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1934 USGS Silver Bell quadrangle1:125000
1956 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Santa Rosa Mountains quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1964 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
1989 USGS Santa Rosa Mountains SE quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Silver Bell Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Santa Rosa Mountains SE quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Pipyak between 1992 and 2009, burning about 9 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	3

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
31 May 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Papago Agency	MIKE FIRE
31 May 1995	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Papago Agency	SANTAROSA1
2 December 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hoi Oidak	4.4 miles	15
Sil Nakya	6.5 miles	20
Queens Well	8.9 miles	15
Makgum Havoka	9.5 miles	15
Quinlin	10.5 miles	15
Ak Chin	11.8 miles	14
Achi	12.1 miles	14
Ali Oidak	12.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24564. 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.