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Robles Junction, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1996. It lies in ZIP code area 85736. It stands on Mendoza Wash. The Survey maps it on the Three Points quadrangle. It stands 2,543 feet above sea level.

Robles Junction within Pima County

On record in Robles Junction

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

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

25 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Robles Junction between 1999 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. None 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/undetermined25

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
23 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreThree Points Fire Districtnot named
10 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office896
4 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreThree Points Fire Districtnot named
17 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreThree Points Fire Districtnot named
10 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreThree Points Fire Districtnot named
28 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeYELLOW HORSE
25 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreThree Points Fire Districtnot named
25 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSIERRITA MOUNTAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Robles Junction: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Geothermal. 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
Sierrita Marble PlantREEPast Producer
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima 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
Three Points0.1 miles21
Corner Windmill2.9 miles21
Diamond Bell Ranch7.3 miles15
San Pedro9.4 miles21
Nawt Vaya9.9 miles21
San Xavier13.5 miles21
Old Tucson13.7 miles22
Old Tucson Estates13.7 miles21

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 Robles JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7353204The 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 24585. 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.