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Theba, Arizona

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Gila Bend census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85337. The Survey maps it on the Theba quadrangle. 111 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 728 feet above sea level.

Theba within Maricopa County

On record in Theba

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Theba fell from 158 to 111 between 2010 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
2010158
2020111-47 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2018

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of Theba in Maricopa County, Arizona. More than 800 images attributed to the Hohokam people have been found among weathered basalt boulders overlaying a granite outcrop in the area
Rock carvings at the Painted Rocks petroglyph site, near the town of Theba in Maricopa County, Arizona. More than 800 images attributed to the Hohokam people have been found among weathered basalt boulders overlaying a granite outcrop in the area
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Theba between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,015 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/undetermined33
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
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
18 September 1999Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBEND II
15 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Central DistrictGILA CANAL
8 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Central DistrictTAGE
28 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTHEBA #3
25 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTHEBA
19 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeBENDER
8 June 2002Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTHEBA #4
30 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Theba in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindTheba-A mesonet station located approximately 11 miles west of Gila Bend measured a 58 mph wind gust.

Every storm 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
Smurr3.9 miles14
Piedra4.9 miles14
Point of Rocks8.9 miles14
Gila Bend9.6 miles15
Sil Murk (historical)9.8 miles15
San Lucy Village9.9 miles15
Tartron11.2 miles15
Bosque16.0 miles14

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 ThebaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5240173The 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 12385. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.