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San Simon, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Bowie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85632. The Survey maps it on the San Simon quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,629 feet above sea level.

San Simon within Cochise County

Population over time

2 figures

San Simon fell from 165 to 158 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
2010165
2020158-7 (-4%)

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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of San Simon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 93 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePOWER
7 August 1996Debris and open burning3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
19 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeSAN SIMON
17 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeBURRO
28 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresGila District OfficeSIMON
23 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBowie Fire DistrictI 10 MM 377
17 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeWEST
1 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of San Simon: 33 producers, 1 occurrence. 33 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Unnamed OccurrenceGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Simon in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2018Thunderstorm WindSan Simon2 hurt, $50,000Thunderstorm winds blew over a U.S. Postal Service semi-tractor trailer that was traveling westbound on Interstate 10 near San Simon. The driver and passenger suffered minor injuries but were treated and released from a nearby hospital. A nearby state DOT weather instrument measured a wind gust from the south of 83 mph at the time of the accident.
July 2018Heavy RainSan Simon$5,000Heavy rain and wet roads resulted in a car hydroplaning and veering off Interstate 10 near San Simon. The car sustained minimal damage but the motorist was uninjured.
August 2025Flash FloodSan Simon$2,000Riley Rd in San Simon are closed due to flash flooding causing roadway damage for unknown duration of time. A nearby rain gauge reported 0.62 inches of rainfall in the area.
August 2025Flash FloodSan Simon$2,000Carr Rd in San Simon are closed due to flash flooding causing roadway damage for unknown duration of time. A nearby rain gauge reported 0.62 inches of rainfall in the area.
September 2025Flash FloodSan Simon$2,000Ball Rd, Riley Rd, and West Coyote Song Rd in San Simon, AZ closed due to flooding. Roadways closed for an unknown duration of time.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSan Simon-Two weather stations in San Simon recorded wind gusts to 66 mph and 62 mph, respectively.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSan Simon-Three ADOT weather stations in San Simon and Bowie recorded thunderstorm wind gusts of 73, 71 and 62 mph, respectively. There was also a dust storm with visibilities less than a quarter of a mile during this event.
July 2021Flash FloodSan Simon-One to two inches of rain in less than 1 hour south of San Simon caused flash flooding of roadways and resulted in the closing of Coyote Song Rd.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSan Simon-San Simon ADOT weather station measured a wind gust of 61 mph.
July 1999Flash FloodSan Simon-Several roads flooded and impassable.

Every storm 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
Vanar7.3 miles19
Olga7.3 miles17
Yellow Hammer Mill7.3 miles17
Wheeler Place7.6 miles18
Taylor Place14.2 miles18
Bowie14.3 miles17
Buckeye Mill18.8 miles17
Hilltop19.0 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 San SimonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5245006The 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 10856. 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.