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Shadow Mountain Village Scottsdale, Arizona

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Salt River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85257. The Survey maps it on the Tempe quadrangle.

Shadow Mountain Village Scottsdale within Maricopa County

On record in Shadow Mountain Village Scottsdale

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

1,195 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,195 fires within 5 miles of Shadow Mountain Village Scottsdale between 1996 and 2020, burning about 187 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined1163
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical DepartmentNOT NAMED
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office155223
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department333916
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-133139
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTempe Fire Department1820633
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical DepartmentNOT NAMED
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office241628

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Shadow Mountain Village Scottsdale: 10 producers, 5 past producers, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Flagstone, Slate, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Giacoma ClaimsCopperUnknown
Mesa Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Scottsdale PlantFlagstone, Slate, DimensionProducer
A&A Materials ScreeningSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Arizona S&R Plant #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hayden Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johnson Stewart Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mesa Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mesa Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mesa Sand & Rock #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Shadow Mountain Village0.1 miles23
The Trails III0.1 miles23
Wheel Inn Ranch1.7 miles23
Marlborough Park1.7 miles23
Salt River2.0 miles22
Tempe Cascade2.1 miles23
Tempe2.7 miles23
Normal Junction3.1 miles23

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 Q122557539The 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 25085. 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.