Sotos Crossing, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Nogales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85646. It lies near Cottonwood Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Amado quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sotos Crossing within Santa Cruz County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1920 USGS Arivaca quadrangle1:125000
1939 USGS Tubac quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Tubac quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Tubac quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Amado quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Sells quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2004 USGS Amado quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Sotos Crossing (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined	20
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 August 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	SPARKLETT
15 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	not named
14 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tubac Fire District	180936
12 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tubac Fire District	180923
1 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District	TOP VIEW
6 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Tubac Fire District	NOT NAMED
27 June 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
23 June 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	AMADO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tubac	1.3 miles	20
Carmen	3.1 miles	20
Agua Linda	3.6 miles	19
Tumacacori	4.4 miles	20
Amado	5.5 miles	19
Otero	7.0 miles	20
Alto	8.6 miles	23
Madera Canyon	10.5 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 36850. 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.