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.
Population over time
2 figuresSan 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 165 | |
| 2020 | 158 | -7 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 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.
- 1917 USGS San Simon quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1926 USGS Orange Butte quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS San Simon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS San Simon quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS San Simon quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS San Simon quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Willcox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS San Simon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
26 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 17 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | POWER |
| 7 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 19 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Gila District Office | SAN SIMON |
| 17 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Gila District Office | BURRO |
| 28 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Gila District Office | SIMON |
| 23 June 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Bowie Fire District | I 10 MM 377 |
| 17 June 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | WEST |
| 1 June 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 34 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Occurrence | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Name Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Name Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Name Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Name Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Name Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Name Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Name Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Name Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Name Unknown | Geothermal | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Simon | 2 hurt, $50,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2018 | Heavy Rain | San Simon | $5,000 | Heavy 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 2025 | Flash Flood | San Simon | $2,000 | Riley 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 2025 | Flash Flood | San Simon | $2,000 | Carr 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 2025 | Flash Flood | San Simon | $2,000 | Ball 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Simon | - | Two weather stations in San Simon recorded wind gusts to 66 mph and 62 mph, respectively. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | San 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 2021 | Flash Flood | San 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Simon | - | San Simon ADOT weather station measured a wind gust of 61 mph. |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | San Simon | - | Several roads flooded and impassable. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanar | 7.3 miles | 19 | |
| Olga | 7.3 miles | 17 | |
| Yellow Hammer Mill | 7.3 miles | 17 | |
| Wheeler Place | 7.6 miles | 18 | |
| Taylor Place | 14.2 miles | 18 | |
| Bowie | 14.3 miles | 17 | |
| Buckeye Mill | 18.8 miles | 17 | |
| Hilltop | 19.0 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 San Simon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5245006 | 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 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.










