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Pisinimo, Arizona

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. The Survey maps it on the Pisinimo quadrangle.

Pisinimo within Pima 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Pisinimo between 1993 and 2014, burning about 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
10 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePapago AgencyHWY86-82
14 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyYESTERDAY
22 May 1995Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresPapago AgencyPISINEMO
24 April 1993Debris and open burning6.1 acresPapago AgencyPISINIMO
11 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyFATHER
28 February 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyCLUB HOUSE
9 October 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyPISINOMO
5 January 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyACUNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pisinimo: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pisinimo in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindPisinimo$75,000Multiple homes suffered roof damage in Pisinemo, and the window was broken in 1 home. Two outbuildings were also damaged.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPisinimo$40,000Thunderstorm winds caused roof damage to six homes in Pisinimo, with two complete roof failures reported, and four roofs partially damaged. Several power poles were damaged by the thunderstorm winds as well, with five communities reporting power outages.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindPisinimo$12,000no account filed
August 2012FloodPisinimo$10,000Heavy rain which totaled between three and five inches began the previous afternoon and continued into the night in the Quijotoa Mountains. Pisinimo Wash filled and flooded parts of the downstream community of Pisinimo, although sandbagging helped prevent major damage. Flood watesr continued down San Simon Wash and when combined with runoff from Gu Vo Wash, flooded areas south toward the international border, including Route 18.
August 2006Flash FloodPisinimo-The Gu Vo Wash flooded several roadways making them impassable near the Village of Pisinimo.

Every storm 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
Pisinemo0.4 miles14
Peach Pu1.8 miles14
Viason Chin1.9 miles14
Hali Murk2.6 miles14
Tatk Kam Vo3.5 miles8
Kom Vo5.5 miles8
Ahan Owuch7.6 miles14
Piato Vaya8.4 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q42318793The 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 9539. 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.