Tatk Kam Vo, Arizona

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. It lies near Quijotoa Valley. The Survey maps it on the Kom Vo quadrangle. It stands 3,609 feet above sea level.

Tatk Kam Vo within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Sonoyta quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Kom Vo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1963 USGS Lukeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Kom Vo quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Lukeville quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Kom Vo 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 Tatk Kam Vo between 1993 and 2014, burning about 26 acres in total. None 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	4
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
17 September 2003	Smoking	2.0 acres	Papago Agency	BRUSHFIRE
10 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Papago Agency	HWY86-82
18 July 2000	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	COMPRESSOR
14 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Papago Agency	YESTERDAY
24 April 1993	Debris and open burning	6.1 acres	Papago Agency	PISINIMO
11 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Papago Agency	FATHER
28 February 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Papago Agency	CLUB HOUSE
9 October 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Papago Agency	PISINOMO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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 Tatk Kam Vo: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Kom Vo Well	Geothermal	Occurrence
Unknown	Geothermal	Occurrence
Unknown	Geothermal	Occurrence

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kom Vo	2.1 miles	8
Hali Murk	2.7 miles	14
Viason Chin	3.3 miles	14
Pisinimo	3.5 miles	14
Pisinemo	3.5 miles	14
Peach Pu	5.1 miles	14
Kupk	8.3 miles	8
Ahan Owuch	10.5 miles	14

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 Tatk Kam Vo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30624637	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 24645. 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.