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.
Population over time
2 figuresSunizona 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 281 | |
| 2020 | 233 | -48 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Pearce quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1926 USGS Light quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Squaretop Hills quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Sulphur Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Chiricahua Peak quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Sulphur Hills quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
86 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 52 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | MP 43 |
| 3 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | SQUARETOP |
| 23 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | TERRITORY |
| 9 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sunsites-Pearce Fire District | not named |
| 5 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | WASP |
| 3 August 2000 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | BOLT |
| 19 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 4 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.3 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | CHATO |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Ridge | Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Graphite | Past Producer | 1878 | |
| Turkey Creek Ridge Deposit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Gypsum | |
| Turkey Creek Ridge and Turkey Creek | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pearce | 9.0 miles | 18 | |
| Grizzles Orchard | 10.2 miles | 19 | |
| Courtland | 11.3 miles | 18 | |
| Black Diamond | 13.7 miles | 19 | |
| Elfrida | 13.7 miles | 19 | |
| Gleeson | 13.8 miles | 21 | |
| Kansas Settlement | 13.9 miles | 16 | |
| Arizona Sun Sites | 16.4 miles | 18 |
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 Sunizona | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7640397 | The 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.









