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Raso, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Willcox census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85643. It lies near Hay Flat Draw. The Survey maps it on the Willcox North quadrangle. It stands 4,377 feet above sea level.

Raso within Cochise 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.

Fires near this place

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Raso between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,356 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined63
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural11
Smoking10
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
3 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
29 September 2001Debris and open burning60 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRAILROAD PASS
21 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRASO
20 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWillcox Volunteer Fire DepartmentOLD STEWART
16 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRASO
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictGOLD
7 August 1995Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise 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 Raso: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 3 prospects, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Gold, Copper, Iron. 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
Cowboy MineGold, Silver, Copper, LeadPast Producer
Cowboy MineGold, Silver, Copper, LeadPast Producer
Golden Eagle MineLead, Copper, Silver, GoldPast ProducerGold, Lead, Silver
Golden Eagle MineGold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Tennessee and Arizona PropertyGold, SilverPast Producer
DruryKyaniteOccurrence
Iron DoorIronProspect
Iron DoorCopperUnknown
SmootIron, GoldProspect
Spike-E Hills ProspectCopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raso in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Flash FloodRaso$20,000Heavy rain of around 2 inches fell in a short amount of time in the northwest section of Willcox during the afternoon and led to flash flooding by early evening. Saguaro, North Fort Grant and Stewart Road were all closed due to flooding and one vehicle became stalled in flood waters. The flood waters caused a fissure to open up on Saguaro Road.
September 2008Thunderstorm WindRaso$10,000A tractor trailer truck was blown over at mile marker 350 on Interstate 10. In addition, a nearby power pole was knocked down near the Union Pacific Railroad tracks.

Every storm recorded in Cochise 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
Luzena6.8 miles17
Bowie Junction (historical)6.9 miles17
Willcox7.3 miles18
Buckeye Mill10.7 miles17
Dos Cabezas13.5 miles17
Bowie14.1 miles17
Cochise18.0 miles17
Kansas Settlement18.9 miles16

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 Q28912650The 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 24575. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.