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Shopishk, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85193. It lies in Shopishk Valley. The Survey maps it on the Silver Reef Mountains quadrangle.

Shopishk within Pinal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Shopishk between 1992 and 2015, burning about 9,390 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyCHUICHU06
7 July 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresPapago AgencySILVERREEF
4 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyCHUCHU10
29 July 2003Debris and open burning4.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRUBISH
23 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use3.9 acresPapago AgencyCHUICHU#7
2 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresPapago AgencyCHUICHU05
19 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeVAL VISTA
14 July 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCONSTRUCTION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal 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 Shopishk: 12 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Copper StandardCopper, Silica, SilverPast Producer
Copper Standard MineCopper, Silver, GoldProducer1895, 1965
Old JonahCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Old Jonah MineCopper, Silver, GoldProducer1895, 1935, 1939
Silver ReefLead, Silica, Silver, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Silver Reef MineSilver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Silica, MolybdenumPast Producer1885, 1905, 1955
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
SandpitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
NuggetSilverPast Producer
Black ChiefManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Pinal County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shopishk in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindShopishk$30,000Thunderstorm winds downed several power poles along Sunland Gin Road between Harmon Road and Pretzer Road.
September 2019Tornado (EF0)Shopishk-Landspout tornado developed in remote terrain to the south of Chuichu ahead of developing thunderstorms.

Every storm recorded in Pinal 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
Chuichu2.1 miles17
Arizona City6.3 miles20
Vaiva Vo7.7 miles17
Arizola9.6 miles20
Tat Momoli9.7 miles17
Jackrabbit House10.0 miles17
Toltec10.1 miles19
Casa Grande11.0 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 Q122546676The 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 11251. 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.