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.
Population over time
2 figuresSaint 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,699 | |
| 2020 | 1,639 | -60 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Benson quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1922 USGS St. David quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Benson quadrangle1:125000
- 1956 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS St. David quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Saint David quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Fort Huachuca quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1996 USGS Saint David quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph, 1940Taken 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.
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
73 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 29 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | POST |
| 7 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | PEDRO |
| 9 June 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | CROSSTIE |
| 9 June 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 8 June 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | SYBIL |
| 7 June 2009 | Smoking | 1.3 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | HILLTOP |
| 6 June 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Gila District Office | COTTONWOOD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Management Corp Pumice | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Mammoth Tungsten | Tungsten | Prospect | ||
| Bentonite Mine | Bentonite | Past Producer | ||
| Bentonite Mine | Bentonite | Unknown | ||
| Curtis Diatomite | Diatomite | Prospect | ||
| Land | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | ||
| Land Deposit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Gypsum | |
| Post Ranch Diatomite | Diatomite | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curtiss | 1.6 miles | 21 | |
| Escalante Crossing | 3.0 miles | 21 | |
| Fenner | 4.6 miles | 21 | |
| Benson | 6.1 miles | 21 | |
| Tully | 7.3 miles | 21 | |
| Pomerene | 7.6 miles | 21 | |
| Boquillas | 9.2 miles | 21 | |
| Contention | 9.4 miles | 21 |
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 David | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1668632 | The 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.









