Queen Valley, Arizona
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the North Pinal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85118. It lies near Comet Peak. The Survey maps it on the Florence Junction quadrangle. 967 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,037 feet above sea level.
On record in Queen Valley
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Queen Creek Bridge, Carries South El Camino Viejo over Queen Creek, Queen Valleyfederal building survey, 1 photograph
Population over time
3 figuresQueen Valley grew from 820 to 967 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 820 | |
| 2010 | 788 | -32 (-4%) |
| 2020 | 967 | +179 (+23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Florence quadrangle1:125000
- 1902 USGS Florence quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Florence Junction quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1994 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2004 USGS Florence Junction quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
155 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Queen Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,717 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined | 100 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tonto National Forest | GONZALES |
| 30 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 29 September 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | SILVER KING |
| 27 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Tonto National Forest | GONZALEZ |
| 25 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | CONELY POINTS |
| 24 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | QUEEN |
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | DROMEDARY |
| 17 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Tonto National Forest | KERR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Queen Valley: 6 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 producers, 3 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Asbestos, Copper, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Rhyolite | Volcanic Materials, Aggregate, Light Weight | Past Producer | Rhyolite | |
| Arizona Rhyolite | Pumice, Aggregate, Light Weight | Producer | Rhyolite | |
| Bomboy Mine | Copper, Silver, Gold, Vanadium | Producer | 1916, 1971 | |
| El Marmol Claims | Limestone, General | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| El Marmol Claims | Marble, Dimension, Asbestos, Copper, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Elephant Butte Mine | Tungsten, Molybdenum, Copper | Producer | 1951 | |
| Elephant Butte and Whetrock | Copper, Silver, Tungsten | Past Producer | ||
| Gonzales Pass Deposit | Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Woodbury Copper Co Property | Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Iron Cap | Copper, Silver, Gold | Prospect |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smelter Town | 0.8 miles | 20 | |
| Gold Camp | 0.9 miles | 20 | |
| Florence Junction | 3.7 miles | 20 | |
| Reymert | 6.4 miles | 20 | |
| Gold Canyon | 10.2 miles | 21 | |
| Superior | 10.3 miles | 25 | |
| Price | 14.3 miles | 19 | |
| San Tan Valley | 14.7 miles | 19 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Queen Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3044222 | The 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 40413. 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.









