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Sweetwater, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Gila River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85147. The Survey maps it on the Gila Butte quadrangle.

Sweetwater within Pinal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

1,253 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,253 fires within 5 miles of Sweetwater between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,549 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 139 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/undetermined726
Debris and open burning285
Arson/incendiarism139
Equipment and vehicle use43
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Smoking16
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePima AgencySTOTONIC
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresPima AgencyI-10
8 September 1993Debris and open burning50 acresPima AgencyHAMMER
8 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePima AgencyJACKSON
8 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePima AgencyBAHE
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresPima AgencyST.PETER#2
6 September 1993Debris and open burning1.5 acresPima AgencyRAIL ROAD
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresPima AgencyGARCIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Sweetwater: 17 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Beard ClaimsManganeseProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pinal 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
Bapchule1.7 miles20
Casa Blanca2.6 miles19
Stotonic2.8 miles20
Santan3.7 miles20
South Santan5.1 miles18
Snaketown5.5 miles19
Sacaton6.6 miles18
Burns8.2 miles19

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 SweetwaterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28873460The 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 24637. 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.