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Summerhaven, Arizona

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tucson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85619. It lies near Carter Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mount Lemmon quadrangle. 71 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,000 feet above sea level.

Summerhaven within Pima County

Population over time

2 figures

Summerhaven grew from 40 to 71 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201040
202071+31 (+78%)

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

548 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 548 fires within 5 miles of Summerhaven between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84,233 acres in total. 234 started naturally. 13 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
Natural234
Recreation and ceremony183
Missing data/not specified/undetermined84
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1

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 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoronado National ForestDITCH
7 September 2009Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestALDER
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestCARTER
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestRADIO
6 September 2012Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestALDER
6 September 1996Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestSCOUT
6 September 1993Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestLABOR
5 September 2014Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestDAVIS SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Summerhaven: 14 past producers, 9 occurrences, 6 producers, 5 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Tungsten, Silver, Gold, Copper, Silver. 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
Catalina GroupCopper, Silver, Gold, TungstenProspectUnknown
Catalina GroupCopper, Gold, Silver, TungstenPast Producer
Daily MineCopper, Silver, Gold, TungstenPast Producer
Geesman GroupCopper, Tungsten, Silver, GoldProducer1937, 1948
Geesman Mine GroupCopper, Silver, Tungsten, Gold, UraniumPast Producer
Hartman Homestake MineCopper, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer1947, 1948
Hartman-Homestake MinesCopper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Leatherwood GroupCopper, Silver, Lead, GoldProducer1939, 1965
Leatherwood Mine GroupCopper, Gold, Silver, Lead, UraniumPast Producer
Metal ReserveCopper, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summerhaven in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 2 wildfire, 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 debris flow. 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
June 2003WildfireSummerhaven$66,000,000no account filed
July 2003WildfireSummerhaven$66,000,000no account filed
January 2008FloodSummerhaven$777,000Localized amounts of rainfall in excess of 8 inches occurred on Mt. Lemmon causing extensive flooding and rock slides. Several people in Tucson needed to be rescued from flowing washes.
July 2020Debris FlowSummerhaven-A debris flow of mud, ash, branches and brush was caused by rainfall between 0.75 and 1.25 in just over 30 minutes on the northern part of the Bighorn Fire burn scar. A flow of around 2 feet was measured at the upper reaches of the Canada Del Oro Wash and a debris flow as deep as 2 feet was also observed downstream crossing Edwin Road.
July 2020Debris FlowSummerhaven-A debris flow of mud, ash, branches and brush was caused by rainfall between 0.75 and 1.25 in less than 1 hour on the northern part of the Bighorn Fire burn scar. A flow of nearly 5 feet was measured at the upper reaches of the Canada Del Oro Wash and a debris flow as deep as 3 feet was observed downstream crossing Edwin Road.
July 2013HailSummerhaven-Penny size hail was reported at Summerhaven.
July 2013Flash FloodSummerhaven-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of Mount Lemmon Highway and other roads in Summerhaven.
November 2007Flash FloodSummerhaven-The Catalina highway experienced flooding due to heavy rainfall causing rock slides along the road.
June 2015HailSummerhaven-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pima 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
Loma Linda0.7 miles23
Soldier Camp1.3 miles24
Whitetail2.4 miles24
Willow Canyon4.7 miles24
Catalina9.7 miles21
Skyline Bel Aire Estates10.7 miles26
Oro Valley11.4 miles23
Catalina Foothills12.9 miles26

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.

Wikipedia article on SummerhavenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q31578The 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 34939. 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.