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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.

Queen Valley within Pinal County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Queen 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.

YearPeople Change
2000820
2010788-32 (-4%)
2020967+179 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

155 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined100
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking12
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Firearms and explosives use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTonto National ForestGONZALES
30 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
29 September 2004Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSILVER KING
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTonto National ForestGONZALEZ
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCONELY POINTS
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeQUEEN
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeDROMEDARY
17 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTonto National ForestKERR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Arizona RhyoliteVolcanic Materials, Aggregate, Light WeightPast ProducerRhyolite
Arizona RhyolitePumice, Aggregate, Light WeightProducerRhyolite
Bomboy MineCopper, Silver, Gold, VanadiumProducer1916, 1971
El Marmol ClaimsLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
El Marmol ClaimsMarble, Dimension, Asbestos, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Elephant Butte MineTungsten, Molybdenum, CopperProducer1951
Elephant Butte and WhetrockCopper, Silver, TungstenPast Producer
Gonzales Pass DepositBarium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceVein
Woodbury Copper Co PropertyZinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, SilverProspect
Iron CapCopper, Silver, GoldProspect

Every working 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
Smelter Town0.8 miles20
Gold Camp0.9 miles20
Florence Junction3.7 miles20
Reymert6.4 miles20
Gold Canyon10.2 miles21
Superior10.3 miles25
Price14.3 miles19
San Tan Valley14.7 miles19

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 ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3044222The 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.