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Santa Cruz, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gila River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85339. The Survey maps it on the Montezuma Peak quadrangle. 39 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Santa Cruz within Pinal County

Population over time

2 figures

Santa Cruz grew from 37 to 39 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
201037
202039+2 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

780 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 780 fires within 5 miles of Santa Cruz between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,905 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 110 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/undetermined446
Debris and open burning142
Arson/incendiarism110
Misuse of fire by a minor47
Equipment and vehicle use22
Fireworks4
Smoking2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Firearms and explosives use1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 September 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresPima AgencyH.SCHOOL
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePima AgencyBELTLINE
6 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresPima AgencyWASH2
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePima AgencyPECOS
5 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acrePima AgencyWATER TANK
30 September 1993Debris and open burning8.0 acresPima AgencyHORSE
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePima AgencySALT
3 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acrePima AgencySEVEN

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Santa Cruz: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar, Garnet, Copper, Feldspar, Semiprecious Gemstone, Gold, Mica. 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
Butterfly Mountain AreaMica, Silica, QuartzPast ProducerMuscovite, Sericite
Butterfly Mtn Area Mica DepositMica, SilicaProspect
Sylvania MicaMica, Feldspar, GarnetPast ProducerFeldspar, Garnet, Muscovite
Sylvania MicaCopper, Feldspar, Semiprecious Gemstone, Gold, MicaUnknown
Crusher Mica QuarryMicaUnknown
Hightower Mica MineMicaProducerMica, Muscovite, Sericite

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
Sacate5.7 miles22
Maricopa Wells6.3 miles22
Heaton10.4 miles22
Enid10.9 miles22
Maricopa13.3 miles22
Snaketown13.5 miles19
Ak Chin14.4 miles22
Ak-Chin Village14.4 miles22

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 Santa CruzAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7419385The 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 24604. 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.