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Reata Pass, Arizona

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85262. It lies near Pinnacle Peak. The Survey maps it on the McDowell Peak quadrangle.

Reata Pass within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 29 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Reata Pass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,738 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined47
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office244759
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office243865
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-133141
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111920
21 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreScottsdale Fire Department351159
31 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122827
28 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office155117
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreScottsdale Fire Department314264

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Reata Pass: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Quartz, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silica, Semiprecious Gemstone. 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
Brown ClaimsTalc-SoapstoneUnknown
Enders SilicaSilicaPast Producer
Enders SilicaSilica, QuartzPast ProducerQuartz
Margurite and Stephens ClaimsSemiprecious GemstoneUnknown
White Quartz QuarryQuartz, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceQuartz
White Quartz QuarryFluorine-FluoriteUnknown

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Troon1.4 miles29
Desert Highlands1.6 miles29
Pinnacle Peak Heights IV2.6 miles29
Pinnacle Peak Heights2.8 miles29
Pinnacle Peak Heights V-VI3.1 miles29
Happy Valley Ranch3.2 miles26
Pinnacle Peak Shadows3.2 miles26
Pinnacle Peak Estates III3.2 miles26

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 Q122561954The 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 33424. 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.