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Trench Camp, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Nogales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85624. It lies near Hermosa Hill. The Survey maps it on the Harshaw quadrangle. It stands 5,223 feet above sea level.

Trench Camp within Santa Cruz County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Trench Camp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20,920 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony47
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoronado National ForestWILLOW SPRINGS
15 September 2003Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresCoronado National ForestGARDEN II
15 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAFTERNOON
4 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHARSHAW
20 August 2009Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeALUM
10 August 2009Natural4.0 acresCoronado National ForestTHREE R
10 August 2000Natural30 acresCoronado National ForestHUMMINGBIRD
8 July 1993Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestRED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 155 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 155 workings within 5 miles of Trench Camp: 90 past producers, 32 producers, 15 prospects, 13 occurrences. 33 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Lead, Silver, Lead, 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
Alta MineLead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Zinc, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1875, 1877, 1952
American MineCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Augusta MineLead, Silver, Manganese, Gold, ZincPast Producer
Basin Mine GroupCopper, Silver, Gold, LeadProducer1882, 1885, 1949
Bender MineManganese, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperProducer1875, 1880, 1959
Bender PropertySilver, Zinc, Lead, ManganesePast Producer
Black Eagle MineManganese, Silver, Lead, Copper, GoldProducer1875, 1918, 1930
Blue Eagle MineCopper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, GoldProducer1897, 1903, 1956
Blue Nose MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, ManganesePast Producer1880, 1884, 1956
Blue Nose MineLead, Silver, Zinc, ManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz 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
Harshaw1.2 miles22
Patagonia5.4 miles22
Washington Camp6.0 miles22
Duquesne6.9 miles23
Kino Springs8.2 miles19
Beyerville9.4 miles20
Lochiel10.5 miles23
Alto12.5 miles23

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 Trench CampAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30625671The 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 35457. 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.