Three Points, Arizona
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Arivaca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85735. It stands on Mendoza Wash. The Survey maps it on the Three Points quadrangle. 5,184 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,543 feet above sea level.
On record in Three Points
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Robles Ranch Houselisted 2010 · 0.3 miles away
Population over time
3 figuresThree Points fell from 5,273 to 5,184 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5,273 | |
| 2010 | 5,581 | +308 (+6%) |
| 2020 | 5,184 | -397 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 21 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.
- 1934 USGS Tucson Mountains quadrangle1:125000
- 1941 USGS Cocoraque Butte quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Cocoraque Butte quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Three Points quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1992 USGS Three Points quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Silver Bell Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Three Points quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
25 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Three Points between 1999 and 2020, burning about 15 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 | 25 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Three Points Fire District | not named |
| 10 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | 896 |
| 4 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Three Points Fire District | not named |
| 17 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Three Points Fire District | not named |
| 10 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Three Points Fire District | not named |
| 28 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | YELLOW HORSE |
| 25 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Three Points Fire District | not named |
| 25 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | SIERRITA MOUNTAIN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Three Points: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sierrita Marble Plant | REE | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Three Points in 1 storm report in 1995: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Points | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robles Junction | 0.1 miles | 21 | |
| Corner Windmill | 2.9 miles | 21 | |
| Diamond Bell Ranch | 7.3 miles | 15 | |
| San Pedro | 9.3 miles | 21 | |
| Nawt Vaya | 9.8 miles | 21 | |
| San Xavier | 13.6 miles | 21 | |
| Old Tucson | 13.8 miles | 22 | |
| Old Tucson Estates | 13.8 miles | 21 |
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 Three Points | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1638317 | 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 24652. 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.
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.











