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Sunizona, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Bowie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85625. It lies near Ash Creek Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Hills quadrangle. 233 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Sunizona within Cochise County

Population over time

2 figures

Sunizona fell from 281 to 233 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
2010281
2020233-48 (-17%)

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.

Fires near this place

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Sunizona between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,362 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined52
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural11
Debris and open burning6
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMP 43
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSQUARETOP
23 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTERRITORY
9 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSunsites-Pearce Fire Districtnot named
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictWASP
3 August 2000Natural5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBOLT
19 August 1992Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.3 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictCHATO

Every fire recorded in Cochise 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 Sunizona: 7 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Graphite. 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
Gold RidgeGold, Lead, Silver, Copper, GraphitePast Producer1878
Turkey Creek Ridge DepositGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceGypsum
Turkey Creek Ridge and Turkey CreekGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Cochise 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
Pearce9.0 miles18
Grizzles Orchard10.2 miles19
Courtland11.3 miles18
Black Diamond13.7 miles19
Elfrida13.7 miles19
Gleeson13.8 miles21
Kansas Settlement13.9 miles16
Arizona Sun Sites16.4 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.

Wikipedia article on SunizonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7640397The 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 25289. 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.