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Rancho Del Escondido, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Tonto Basin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85553. It stands on Park Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tonto Basin quadrangle.

Rancho Del Escondido within Gila County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Rancho Del Escondido between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,072 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 2 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
Natural50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning5
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestBAR X
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTonto National ForestHAPPY
21 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTonto National ForestBAY
19 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTonto National ForestPUNKIN
18 September 1995Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestCRAWFORD
14 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestLANN
12 September 2016Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestWALNUT
1 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestHARDI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Rancho Del Escondido: 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Clay, Zeolites, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kathy ClaimsUraniumProspect
Sun Valley Crushing Co PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tonto Basin Chabazite DepositZeolitesOccurrenceChabazite
Clay DepositClayProspect
Clay DepositClayOccurrence
PackardFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1938
Packard MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1938
Tonto Mining & MillingFluorine-FluoriteProducer

Every working recorded in Gila 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
Punkin Center1.1 miles22
Roosevelt Lake Gardens West1.3 miles22
Riverside Acres1.6 miles22
Tonto Basin2.4 miles22
Roosevelt Lake Gardens East3.5 miles22
Jakes Corner10.0 miles23
Coffeepot13.2 miles22
Government Hill15.3 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q122548306The 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 41342. 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.