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Sweetwater Garden, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85032. The Survey maps it on the Paradise Valley quadrangle.

Sweetwater Garden within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

868 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 868 fires within 5 miles of Sweetwater Garden between 1996 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined828
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural13
Power generation/transmission/distribution10

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101906
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101907
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department334318
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-142070
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111664
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department330002
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111662
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Sweetwater Garden: 7 occurrences, 7 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Gold, Silica, 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
Cram's Gold Standard ProspectMercury, Silver, Copper, GoldPast ProducerVein
Mercury GroupMercury, CopperPast ProducerCinnabar
Nita JeanStoneUnknown
Rico GroupMercury, Copper, SilverPast Producer1916
Rico Mercury-Pat.#4047Mercury, Silver, CopperPast Producer1916
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel
Seal Rock GroupKyanite, Mica, MercuryOccurrenceCinnabar, Kyanite, Mica
Silica OccurrenceSilicaOccurrenceQuartz
Squaw Peak AreaKyanitePast ProducerMetamorphic
Victoria QuicksilverMercury, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Maricopa 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
Mayflower Terrace0.9 miles18
Village Fairways0.9 miles25
Cobblestone Square1.1 miles25
Paradise Village North II1.2 miles25
The Covey1.3 miles25
Rancho San Carlos1.3 miles18
Kensington1.3 miles25
Shadow Mountain1.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122546056The 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 25140. 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.