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Taylor Place, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bowie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85632. It stands on Bitter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cochise Head quadrangle.

Taylor Place within Cochise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Taylor Place between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,242 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
25 July 1997Naturalunder an acreChiricahua National MonumentRIDGELINE
23 July 1993Naturalunder an acreChiricahua National MonumentORGAN
18 July 1997Naturalunder an acreChiricahua National MonumentAGAVE
18 July 1997Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestHEAD
17 July 2016Natural21 acresCoronado National ForestEMIGRANT
15 July 2003Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestDUG MOUNTAIN FIRE
12 July 1995Naturalunder an acreChiricahua National MonumentPICKET #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Taylor Place: 8 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead. 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
Clair Group MinesCopper, Lead, Gold, SilverPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Silver
Clair Group MinesLead, Silver, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Cochise White MarbleMarble, Dimension, Stone, DimensionPast Producer
Indian CreekSilica, QuartzOccurrenceQuartz
Indian CreekSilicaOccurrence
King of Lead MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, CopperProducer1900, 1924, 1970
King of Lead MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, GoldPast Producer
Willie Rose MineCopper, Silver, Gold, ZincPast ProducerContact Metamorphic
Apache ChiefCopper, LeadProspect
Name UnknownCopperPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Cochise 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
Hilltop6.2 miles21
Galeyville10.4 miles22
Paradise11.3 miles22
San Simon14.2 miles18
Portal14.8 miles22
Olga15.5 miles17
Vanar16.7 miles19
Dos Cabezas16.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24648. 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.