Rainbow Valley, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gila Bend census division. The Survey maps it on the Mobile NW quadrangle.

Rainbow Valley within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1951 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Mobile NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Phoenix South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Rainbow Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined	36
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
24 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Goodyear Fire Department	8354961
30 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Phoenix District Office	BUCKEYE
25 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	AZ-101251
15 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Goodyear Fire Department	not named
14 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Goodyear Fire Department	8301404
12 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Central District	RIGGS
7 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	154007
4 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Goodyear Fire Department	not named

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Co-op Village	11.9 miles	26
Komatke	12.0 miles	26
Saint Johns Mission	12.0 miles	26
Gila Crossing	12.1 miles	26
Maricopa Village	12.5 miles	26
Liberty	12.5 miles	23
Litchfield Junction	13.2 miles	23
Allenville	13.4 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 Rainbow Valley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16899112	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 25035. 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.