Planet, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Parker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85344. The Survey maps it on the Planet quadrangle.

Planet within La Paz County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1923 USGS Signal quadrangle1:250000
1942 USGS Signal quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Swansea quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1979 USGS Alamo Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Planet quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Planet between 1992 and 2016, burning about 122 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	3
Natural	2

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
4 September 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
15 August 1994	Natural	80 acres	Bill Williams National Wildlife Refuge	KOHEN
4 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
27 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	PLANET
6 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.6 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	PLANET RANCH

Every fire recorded in La Paz County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Planet: 21 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Copper, Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Angelus Mine	Gold, Iron, Silver	Past Producer
Argus and Maryland Mine Group	Copper, Gold, Iron, Silver	Past Producer
Black Hills	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Iron King Mine	Manganese, Barium-Barite, Iron	Past Producer	Replacement
Lucky Mine Group	Manganese, Iron	Past Producer
Mineral Hill	Iron, Copper, Beryllium, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1900
Mineral Hill Mine	Copper, Iron, Gold, Silver, Beryllium	Producer	1900, 1970
Planet Mine	Silica, Ferrosilicon, Iron, Copper, Silver, Gold, Limestone, General	Past Producer	1863, 1937
Planet Peak Area	Fluorine-Fluorite, Limestone, General, Copper	Past Producer
Unknown	Copper, Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in La Paz 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
Swansea	8.3 miles	18
Parker Strip	12.5 miles	25
Midway	12.9 miles	18
Cienega Springs	14.4 miles	25
Bluewater	16.8 miles	22
Parker	18.5 miles	22
Alamo Crossing (historical)	20.3 miles	18
Bouse	21.8 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24566. 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.