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Polo Village, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tucson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85719. It stands on Arroyo Chico. The Survey maps it on the Tucson quadrangle.

Polo Village within Pima County

On record in Polo Village

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 18 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 25 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

1,576 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,576 fires within 5 miles of Polo Village between 1995 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 42 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/undetermined1454
Natural61
Arson/incendiarism42
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1
Smoking1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Department1862510
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Department1862597
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Department1862310
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Department1862474
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Polo Village: 6 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick Clay, Clay. 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
De Vay Brick CoClayUnknown
De Vay Brick Co.Brick ClayPast Producer
Grabe Brick CoClayUnknown
Grabe Brick Co.Brick ClayPast Producer
Evans Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pima Rock and Sand Co Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
San Xavier Rock and Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalPast Producer

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
Tucson1.7 miles25
Pascua Yaqui Indian Village2.0 miles25
El Rio2.2 miles25
Amphitheater2.6 miles26
Kleindale2.6 miles26
South Tucson3.0 miles25
Pueblo Gardens3.0 miles25
Silent Wheels Ranchomes3.7 miles20

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 Q122590907The 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 9629. 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.