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Sheffield Place, Arizona

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85037. The Survey maps it on the Tolleson quadrangle.

Sheffield Place within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

1,311 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,311 fires within 5 miles of Sheffield Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 33 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/undetermined1261
Arson/incendiarism33
Natural10
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department335425
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office154832
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101903
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101901
7 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAvondale Fire and Medical Department232342
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department332349
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department330995
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office155244

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Sheffield Place: 4 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick Clay, Clay. 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
Building Products Co.ClayPlant
Tolleson MineBrick ClayProducerClay
Agua Fria Pit National S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Allied Concrete PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Allied Concrete,Sand & Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Blm Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel
Tolleson PitSand 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
West End0.5 miles23
Young America West0.5 miles23
Westbriar0.7 miles23
Sunrise Terrace1.1 miles27
Liberty Village1.4 miles23
Willows West1.7 miles27
Villa de Paz1.8 miles23
Dunhill Meadows1.9 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 25089. 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.