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Shadow Canyon, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85053. The Survey maps it on the Union Hills quadrangle.

Shadow Canyon within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

1,039 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,039 fires within 5 miles of Shadow Canyon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 612 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined1002
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning2
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
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122600
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122601
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122599
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111669
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101907
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department333083
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101900

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Shadow Canyon: 20 unknowns, 17 past producers, 5 producers, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Copper, 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 PitCopper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, GoldUnknown
Kruger and Sultan-Pat.#4355 & 1906Gold, Copper, SilverUnknown
Thunderbird Granite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Stone QuarryStonePast ProducerMetamorphic
Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
BluebellGoldUnknown
ElyGoldProspect
Union M.S. 4575GoldPast Producer
Webb GroupGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Maricopa 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
Country Ridge0.3 miles18
Steeplechase0.6 miles18
Union Hills Manor0.8 miles19
Morado Encanto0.8 miles19
Rose Garden Place1.1 miles18
Desert Valley Estates1.2 miles18
Rancho Encanto1.3 miles19
Villas Plaza1.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122554041The 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 25082. 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.