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Quail Valley, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85032. The Survey maps it on the Currys Corner quadrangle.

Quail Valley within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

781 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 781 fires within 5 miles of Quail Valley between 2003 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined750
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Arson/incendiarism9

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101906
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101907
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department334318
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-142070
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111664
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department330002
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department329248
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111662

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Quail Valley: 6 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold, 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
Kruger and Sultan-Pat.#4355 & 1906Gold, Copper, SilverUnknown
Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Victoria QuicksilverMercury, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Jones-Husted ProspectMercuryOccurrence1916
Mercury GroupMercuryProspect
Red Dog-Pat.Claim#3740Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Contention Pat. 1180GoldOccurrence
Devide Pat.Claim 4321GoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Maricopa 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
Shadow Ridge II0.4 miles25
Santiago0.6 miles25
The Covey0.6 miles25
Montclair Terrace0.7 miles26
Paradise Valley Miranda0.7 miles26
Greenway Park V0.8 miles26
Hyde Park0.9 miles25
Kensington0.9 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 25034. 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.