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Tonto Estate, Arizona

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Payson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85541. It stands on Dick Williams Creek. The Survey maps it on the Promontory Butte quadrangle.

Tonto Estate within Gila County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

624 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 624 fires within 5 miles of Tonto Estate between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,843 acres in total. 402 started naturally. 10 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
Natural402
Recreation and ceremony109
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Debris and open burning6
Fireworks4
Other causes2

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 1997Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestBEA
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTonto National Forestnot named
8 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestPROMONTORY BUTTE
6 September 2011Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestLA CIENGA
6 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestBUTTE
6 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National Forestnot named
5 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCoconino National ForestLAKE
5 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National ForestLEONARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tonto Estate: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Uranium. 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
Hillside Clai3CopperProspect
Mormon Lake Uranium ClaimsUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Gila 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
Kohls Ranch2.3 miles27
Thompson Draw Summer Homes Unit One3.2 miles27
Thompson Draw Summer Homes Unit Two3.4 miles27
Tonto Village3.6 miles25
La Cienega4.4 miles25
Ellison Creek Estates4.8 miles25
Bear Flat4.8 miles27
Mountain Meadows4.9 miles27

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 Q122569373The 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 40857. 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.