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San Luis, Arizona

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Somerton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85336. It lies near Yuma Valley. The Survey maps it on the Gadsden OE S quadrangle. 35,257 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 131 feet above sea level.

San Luis within Yuma County

Population over time

2 figures

San Luis grew from 25,505 to 35,257 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
201025,505
202035,257+9,752 (+38%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of San Luis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 208 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism3

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
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
25 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office2705
22 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office2662
20 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictGADSDEN 2
15 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresColorado River DistrictANNVERSITY
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office2175
8 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictSHOWER
21 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office2315

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yuma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of San Luis: 13 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown

Every working recorded in Yuma County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Luis in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1996Thunderstorm WindSan Luis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yuma 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
Gadsden4.7 miles20
Somerton8.5 miles24
Yuma Indian Homesteads10.7 miles28
Steam17.2 miles28
Yuma18.4 miles27
Araby19.0 miles27
San Dionysio (historical)21.5 miles28
Fortuna22.4 miles20

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 Q80018The 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 43142. 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.