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Schuchk, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. The Survey maps it on the Haivana Nakya quadrangle. It stands 2,523 feet above sea level.

Schuchk within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Schuchk between 1992 and 2014, burning about 93 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
11 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyLION
29 June 2005Naturalunder an acrePapago AgencyHERD
26 June 2012Natural70 acresPapago AgencyCOMO FIRE
19 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyROUTE 34 FIRE
17 June 2008Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresPapago AgencySCHUCK TOAK FIRE
24 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyRANCH
19 May 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresPapago AgencySANTAROSA0
9 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGila District OfficeSNYDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Schuchk: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Manganese, Gold. 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
Apex GroupSilver, GoldPast Producer
Hercules & Monarch MineSilver, CopperProducer1951
Pima County Mn DepositsManganesePast Producer1917
Hercules and Monarch MinesSilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schuchk in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 flash flood. 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
August 2014Flash FloodSchuchk-Local law enforcement reports water flowing over Route 35 at mile marker 6.

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
Comobabi7.6 miles19
San Vicente7.9 miles19
Haivana Nakya8.1 miles19
Pan Tak9.8 miles19
Sil Nakya9.9 miles20
Quinlin10.2 miles15
Queens Well10.4 miles15
San Pedro10.7 miles21

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 SchuchkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30594097The 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 24608. 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.