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The Covey, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85032. The Survey maps it on the Paradise Valley quadrangle.

The Covey within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

800 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 800 fires within 5 miles of The Covey between 2003 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined768
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9

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
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101906
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101907
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department334318
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-142070
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111664
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department330002
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department329248
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111662

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of The Covey: 5 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, 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
Cram's Gold Standard ProspectMercury, Silver, Copper, GoldPast ProducerVein
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kruger and Sultan-Pat.#4355 & 1906Gold, Copper, SilverUnknown
Mercury GroupMercury, CopperPast ProducerCinnabar
Squaw Peak AreaKyanitePast ProducerMetamorphic
Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Victoria QuicksilverMercury, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Contention Pat. 1180GoldOccurrence
Devide Pat.Claim 4321GoldUnknown
Jack White MineGoldPast Producer1885

Every working recorded in Maricopa 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
Santiago0.4 miles25
Kensington0.4 miles25
Shadow Ridge II0.5 miles25
Paradise Village North II0.6 miles25
Quail Valley0.6 miles26
Hyde Park0.7 miles25
Greenbrier East0.8 miles25
Montclair Terrace1.0 miles26

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 Q122566571The 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 25147. 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.