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San Tan Valley, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the North Pinal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85140. The Survey maps it on the Sacaton NE quadrangle. 99,894 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,516 feet above sea level.

San Tan Valley within Pinal County

Population over time

2 figures

San Tan Valley grew from 81,321 to 99,894 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
201081,321
202099,894+18,573 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of San Tan Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,798 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined36
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
21 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
15 July 1994Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
15 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
10 July 1992Arson/incendiarism320 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
8 June 1995Misuse of fire by a minor20 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
8 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeOLBERG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of San Tan Valley: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blackwater GroupCopper, GoldProspect
Vantex Land and Development CoCopper, GoldProspect

Every working recorded in Pinal 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
Magma4.4 miles20
Olberg10.8 miles18
Florence Junction11.2 miles20
Sacaton Flats11.2 miles18
Blackwater11.4 miles17
Cottonwood12.2 miles18
Gold Canyon12.5 miles21
South Santan12.6 miles18

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 Tan ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5241708The 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 2576311. 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.