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Trovia, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Deer Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85331. The Survey maps it on the Cave Creek quadrangle.

Trovia within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Trovia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,926 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined109
Smoking4
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office154829
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-133141
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office154865
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office154862
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
6 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-142023
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Trovia: 5 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silica, Quartz, Copper, Silver, Lead. 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
Copper TopGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Copper Top MineGold, Copper, Silver, LeadPast Producer1904
G.O. JohnCopper, Silver, Gold, LeadProspect
Morman GirlGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, SilicaOccurrenceVein
Mormon Girl-Pat.#2678Copper, Gold, Lead, Manganese, Silver, Zinc, SilicaPast Producer
Pearl Chemical Clay DepositClayPast Producer
Silica OccurrenceSilica, QuartzOccurrenceQuartz
El Rame M.S. 4553Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
RenaSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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
Desert Wind1.0 miles20
Lone Mountain Ranch1.2 miles20
Dixileta Verde2.9 miles20
Dove Valley Ranch3.0 miles20
Carefree Foothills3.1 miles20
Sincuidados3.8 miles20
Currys Corner4.7 miles26
Happy Valley Ranch4.7 miles26

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 Q122543548The 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 2059861. 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.