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Sasabe, Arizona

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Arivaca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85633. The Survey maps it on the Sasabe quadrangle. It stands 3,537 feet above sea level.

Sasabe within Pima County

On record in Sasabe

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Sasabe between 1994 and 2020, burning about 7,575 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined17
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArivaca Volunteer Fire Department187
14 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresBuenos Aires National Wildlife RefugePOWER
11 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
7 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreBuenos Aires National Wildlife RefugeGARCIA TANK
5 August 1998Naturalunder an acreBuenos Aires National Wildlife RefugeMP2-HWY286
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArivaca Volunteer Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
3 August 1995Natural1.5 acresBuenos Aires National Wildlife RefugeBUENA V.
28 August 2020Missing 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 Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sasabe: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver. 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
Payoff MineCopper, SilverProducer1951, 1952

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sasabe in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2007: 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. The reports record 4 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 2007LightningSasabe4 hurtA suspected illegal immigrant was struck and injured by lightning while traveling through the desert of the Altar Valley near Sasabe. Three of his companions were also shocked when the bolt hit the man who suffered minor injuries.
July 1998Funnel CloudSasabe-Custom officials at the Port of Customs in Sasabee reported several funnel clouds.

Every storm recorded in Pima 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
Buenos Aires6.5 miles17
Sandwash Mill6.7 miles20
Puertocito8.7 miles18
Sapano Vaya9.8 miles17
Kom Kug10.8 miles17
Newfield10.9 miles17
Arivaca12.6 miles17
Hashan Chuchg13.4 miles17

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 SasabeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709355The 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 10961. 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.