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San Luis, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. The Survey maps it on the Ko Vaya quadrangle. It stands 1,795 feet above sea level.

San Luis within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of San Luis between 1997 and 2015, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
8 July 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePapago AgencyHWY86-MP97
13 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyNOPOWER
28 June 2013Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestSYCAMORE
14 May 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresPapago AgencyNOLIC FIRE
26 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyJOHNSON FIRE
27 March 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePapago AgencyNOLIC
6 February 2015Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyNOLIC
16 November 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresPapago AgencyHWY 86 MP 101

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of San Luis: 16 past producers, 8 occurrences, 7 producers, 7 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Gold, Silver, Copper, Silver. 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
Cunquian MineCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Digmore 2 ClaimsBarium-BariteOccurrenceBarite
Mildren MineLead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Zinc, Vanadium, MolybdenumPast Producer1932, 1941
Mildren Mine GroupGold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Vanadium, ZincPast Producer
Picacho MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Lead, ZincProducer1850, 1965
Picacho MineGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Picacho Peak PlacerIronUnknown
Silver Dollar ClaimsTungsten, Barium-BariteOccurrence1939
Silver KingSilver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Silver Queen MineSilver, Copper, Gold, LeadProducer1910, 1955

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Luis in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015Flash FloodSan Luis-Heavy rain caused the San Luis Wash to flow across Route 232 near the village of San Luis to a depth of 1 to 2 feet.

Every storm 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
Santa Lucia0.9 miles18
Rincon2.0 miles18
Nolic3.1 miles18
Ko Vaya3.2 miles18
Santa Cruz4.1 miles18
Sikul Himatk4.9 miles14
Wickchoupai5.6 miles18
Vainom Kug5.9 miles14

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 San LuisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28912664The 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 24596. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.