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Price, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the North Pinal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85132. It lies near Box Canyon. The Survey maps it on the North Butte quadrangle.

Price within Pinal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Price between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,620 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning6
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
2 September 2019Natural111 acresGila District OfficeGILA RIVER
7 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
6 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
31 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreGila District OfficeDIVERSION
31 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMILITARY
29 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
21 July 1994Natural150 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
21 July 1994Natural50 acresPhoenix District OfficeFOOTHILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Price: 11 prospects, 7 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Lead, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver. 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
Alvarez ClaimsIron, Copper, Stone, GoldPast Producer1958
Arizona Copper GroupIron, Silica, Copper, GoldPast Producer
Arizona Silver Queen Mining Co PropGold, Copper, Silver, LeadProspect
Gorilla Group 2Copper, Silver, Molybdenum, GoldProspect
HarborlitePerliteProspect
Ironside Mining Co PropertyGold, Lead, CopperProspect
Okalhoma MineLead, Silver, Gold, CopperProducer1935, 1956
Oklahoma GroupLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Princess Elena ClaimsLead, Manganese, Silver, Sulfur, Zinc, GoldProspect
Rainbow Silver MineSilver, Copper, LeadProducerVein

Every working recorded in Pinal County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Price in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 flash 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
August 2016Flash FloodPrice$6,000Heavy rain caused washes to overtop secondary roads between Kearny and Florence. A |32-yr old man attempted to drive his truck across a wash near Whitlow Ranch and Hawkview Roads and became stuck when water rushed into his vehicle.

Every storm recorded in Pinal 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
Cochran4.5 miles19
Florence9.3 miles19
Reymert9.3 miles20
Cactus Forest10.4 miles15
Adamsville12.5 miles19
Florence Junction12.6 miles20
Sonora13.4 miles16
Valley Farms13.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24571. 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.