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Saint David, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Benson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85630. The Survey maps it on the Saint David quadrangle. 1,639 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,691 feet above sea level.

Saint David within Cochise County

Population over time

2 figures

Saint David fell from 1,699 to 1,639 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
20101,699
20201,639-60 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1940

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Water storage pools for irrigation and stock on Mormon farms at Saint David, Arizona
Water storage pools for irrigation and stock on Mormon farms at Saint David, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Saint David between 1992 and 2018, burning about 287 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning6
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
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
27 September 1992Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
29 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePOST
7 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePEDRO
9 June 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCROSSTIE
9 June 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
8 June 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSYBIL
7 June 2009Smoking1.3 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHILLTOP
6 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeCOTTONWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Saint David: 6 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Bentonite, Diatomite. 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
Industrial Management Corp PumicePumiceOccurrence
Mammoth TungstenTungstenProspect
Bentonite MineBentonitePast Producer
Bentonite MineBentoniteUnknown
Curtis DiatomiteDiatomiteProspect
LandGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Land DepositGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceGypsum
Post Ranch DiatomiteDiatomitePast Producer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Curtiss1.6 miles21
Escalante Crossing3.0 miles21
Fenner4.6 miles21
Benson6.1 miles21
Tully7.3 miles21
Pomerene7.6 miles21
Boquillas9.2 miles21
Contention9.4 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 Saint DavidAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1668632The 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 10700. 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.