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Sanchez, Arizona

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Safford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85546. It stands on Yuma Wash. The Survey maps it on the San Jose quadrangle. It stands 3,061 feet above sea level.

Sanchez within Graham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Sanchez between 1992 and 2019, burning about 334 acres in total. 8 started naturally. None 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/undetermined14
Natural8
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
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
31 August 1992Natural25 acresGila District OfficeBUCKCANYON
29 August 1994Natural21 acresGila District OfficeSOLOMON
20 August 2002Natural5.0 acresGila District OfficePARSON
20 August 1993Natural7.0 acresGila District OfficeHORSE
16 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeDRY
14 August 2014Natural1.0 acresGila District OfficeGILA BOX
1 August 1993Natural160 acresGila District OfficeBONITA CK
9 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSAGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Graham County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Sanchez: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum. 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
Dorothy B ClaimsSand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Iron, SilicaProspect
HorseshoeCopper, Gold, Iron, Silver, SilicaProducer
Horseshoe MineCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer1904, 1966
Pumice No.2Pumice, PerliteProducer
Sanchez Copper DepositCopper, Gold, Silver, MolybdenumPast Producer1899
Solomon DepositDiatomiteProspect
Terra Firma ProspectAluminumOccurrenceVein
Pumice No. 2PumicePast ProducerPumice
Graham County CrusherSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Graham County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sanchez in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSanchez-A strong thunderstorm outflow moved through the higher terrain of southern Greenlee and eastern Graham Counties.

Every storm recorded in Graham 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
Buena Vista2.1 miles12
San Jose4.3 miles12
Gripe5.0 miles12
Solomon6.2 miles14
Hollywood7.9 miles14
Lone Star8.2 miles14
Safford9.1 miles14
Graham10.5 miles12

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 SanchezAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28912675The 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 10866. 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.