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Rio Verde, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Tonto National Forest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85263. It lies near Malpais Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Fort McDowell quadrangle. 2,210 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,617 feet above sea level.

Rio Verde within Maricopa County

On record in Rio Verde

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Rio Verde grew from 1,811 to 2,210 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,811
20202,210+399 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Rio Verde between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,559 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Recreation and ceremony23
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
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
28 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTonto National Forestnot named
23 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSalt River AgencyLONG
20 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTonto National ForestVERDE
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTonto National ForestMIDWAY
2 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestFIREWORKS
16 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National Forestnot named
16 September 1993Smoking2.5 acresTonto National Forestnot named
15 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTonto National ForestNEEDLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rio Verde: 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Happy GroupFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceVein
Happy GroupFluorine-FluoriteProspect
Mcdowell Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Mcdowell Clay DepositClayOccurrence

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
Rio Verde Estates0.1 miles26
Fort McDowell5.9 miles26
Fountain Hills8.0 miles25
Fountain View8.5 miles25
Reata Pass9.0 miles29
Troon9.4 miles29
Desert Highlands9.9 miles29
Pinnacle Peak Heights IV10.2 miles29

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 Rio VerdeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1397426The 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 37065. 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.