Rileys El Encinar, Arizona

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Bisbee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85603. It stands on Banning Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bisbee quadrangle.

Rileys El Encinar within Cochise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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.

1902 USGS Bisbee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1910 USGS Bisbee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1916 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:125000
1919 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:125000
1927 USGS Bisbee quadrangle1:62500
1933 USGS Bisbee quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Bisbee quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Bisbee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Bisbee quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Rileys El Encinar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,314 acres in total. 18 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	31
Natural	18
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	FOSS
28 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	JEFFERSON-DAVIS
14 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	BACKPACK
9 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	RIFLE RANGE
6 July 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
24 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	BANNING
21 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	JUNCTION
20 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Gila District Office	MULE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Rileys El Encinar: 6 past producers, 5 occurrences, 5 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Copper, Gold, Silver, Silica, Copper, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bisbee Coalition Mines	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Copper, Gold, Silver
Bisbee Coalition Mines	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer
Caretto Claim Group	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Galena
Cochise Queen	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Hopeful Claim	Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Barite
Hopeful Claim	Barium-Barite, Lead, Copper	Prospect
Inspiration Group	Copper, Gold, Lead, Tungsten, Silver	Past Producer
Juniper Flats Area Mines	Gold, Silver, Silica, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	Anglesite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Gold, Quartz, Silver
Juniper Flats Area Mines	Silica, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Lucky Strike	Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Lead	Prospect

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Neff	0.9 miles	24
Highland Park	3.7 miles	24
Bisbee	4.3 miles	24
Lowell	6.6 miles	24
Hereford	6.7 miles	19
South Bisbee	6.8 miles	24
Galena	6.9 miles	24
Briggs	6.9 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24580. 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.