BlockTartron, Arizona
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Gila Bend census division. The Survey maps it on the Sentinel NE quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 15 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.
- 1949 USGS Sentinel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Sentinel quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Dateland quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Sentinel NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Sentinel quadrangle1:50000
Fires near this place
21 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Tartron between 1996 and 2018, burning about 208 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | MIDWAY |
| 11 July 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Phoenix District Office | SENTINEL |
| 9 June 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | BEND |
| 3 June 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | MIDWAY |
| 27 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | PAINTED ROCK |
| 26 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | SENTINEL |
| 24 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | TARTRON |
| 22 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | THEBA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122552299 | 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 24643. 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.