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.
Population over time
2 figuresSan 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 25,505 | |
| 2020 | 35,257 | +9,752 (+38%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1942 USGS Yuma quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Tinajas Altas Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
42 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 39 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 25 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | 2705 |
| 22 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | 2662 |
| 20 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado River District | GADSDEN 2 |
| 15 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Colorado River District | ANNVERSITY |
| 9 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | 2175 |
| 8 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado River District | SHOWER |
| 21 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | 2315 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional 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.
Storms near this place
1 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Luis | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gadsden | 4.7 miles | 20 | |
| Somerton | 8.5 miles | 24 | |
| Yuma Indian Homesteads | 10.7 miles | 28 | |
| Steam | 17.2 miles | 28 | |
| Yuma | 18.4 miles | 27 | |
| Araby | 19.0 miles | 27 | |
| San Dionysio (historical) | 21.5 miles | 28 | |
| Fortuna | 22.4 miles | 20 |
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 Luis | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q80018 | 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 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.







