Sunset, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Bonita-Klondyke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85643. It lies near Copeland Draw. The Survey maps it on the Harrison Canyon quadrangle.

Sunset within Graham 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.

1940 USGS Sierra Bonita Ranch quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1942 USGS Sierra Bonita Ranch quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Sierra Bonita Ranch quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Harrison Canyon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Mammoth quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1996 USGS Harrison Canyon quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sunset between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,484 acres in total. 6 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
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 August 2005	Natural	35 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	NORTH OAK
16 August 2020	Natural	1,000 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District	HIGH CREEK
31 July 1998	Natural	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	SAWMILL
11 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	SULPHER 2
29 June 2018	Natural	144 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District	SUNSET
19 June 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	BELL RANCH
27 May 1993	Natural	210 acres	Coronado National Forest	RILEY
8 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Coronado National Forest	BUDDY

Every fire recorded in Graham 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
Bonita	13.4 miles	14
Old Columbine	20.2 miles	17
Turkey Flat	21.8 miles	16
Klondyke	22.5 miles	21
Artesia	29.1 miles	11
Swift Trail Junction	29.8 miles	11
Lebanon	30.2 miles	11
Cactus Flat	30.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24634. 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.