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Tanque Verde, Arizona

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tucson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85749. The Survey maps it on the Agua Caliente Hill quadrangle. 16,250 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,671 feet above sea level.

Tanque Verde within Pima County

Population over time

3 figures

Tanque Verde grew from 16,195 to 16,250 between 2000 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
200016,195
201016,901+706 (+4%)
202016,250-651 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

513 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 513 fires within 5 miles of Tanque Verde between 1993 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined458
Natural21
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony11
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office153563
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office153579
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Departmentnot named
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office153577
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office153578
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office153576

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tanque Verde: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Copper, Gold. 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
Cindrich PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Loma Verde MineCopper, GoldProspect
RoadsideGold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pima 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
Rolling Hills Country Club Estates5.3 miles27
Indian Ridge Estates5.6 miles27
Kingston Knolls Terrace6.0 miles27
Tucson Country Club Estates6.5 miles27
Civano6.9 miles27
Craycroft7.9 miles25
Vandenberg Village8.5 miles27
Rankin9.2 miles27

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 Tanque VerdeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1862070The 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 37549. 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.