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Tonto Village, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Payson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85541. The Survey maps it on the Diamond Point quadrangle.

Tonto Village within Gila County

On record in Tonto Village

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

545 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 545 fires within 5 miles of Tonto Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,682 acres in total. 377 started naturally. 13 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
Natural377
Recreation and ceremony48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use21
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Arson/incendiarism13
Smoking10
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
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 1994Naturalunder an acreTonto National Forestnot named
4 September 2004Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestBOOT
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestKOHLS
28 September 2014Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestHUNTER
27 September 2014Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestPONDEROSA
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestPONDEROSA
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestCAVE
23 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTonto National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tonto Village: 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Quartz, Semiprecious Gemstone, Copper, Uranium, Copper. 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
Diamond RimQuartz, Semiprecious GemstoneProducer
Ezell ClaimsSilverProspect
Hillside Clai3CopperProspect
Neptune PropertyUranium, CopperProspect

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
Thompson Draw Summer Homes Unit Two0.8 miles27
Thompson Draw Summer Homes Unit One1.5 miles27
Kohls Ranch2.1 miles27
Tonto Estate3.6 miles27
Bear Flat3.8 miles27
Ellison Creek Estates4.1 miles25
La Cienega4.6 miles25
Diamond Point Shadows5.9 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 35390. 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.