Tumacacori, Arizona
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Nogales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85640. It lies near Rock Corral Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tubac quadrangle. It stands 3,274 feet above sea level.
On record in Tumacacori
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 2 records
Tumacacori MuseumNational Historic Landmark · listed 1987
Tumacacori National Monumentlisted 1966
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Tumacacori National Historical Park, 1891 East Frontage Road, Tumacacorifederal building survey, 1 photograph
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1920 USGS Arivaca quadrangle1:125000
- 1939 USGS Tubac quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Tubac quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Tubac quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Tubac quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1994 USGS Sells quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Tubac quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
2 photographs, 1937Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded, 1937. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
29 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Tumacacori between 1992 and 2020, burning about 297 acres in total. 5 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 | 20 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Coronado National Forest | not named |
| 17 July 1997 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Coronado National Forest | TUMACACORI |
| 14 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tubac Fire District | 180936 |
| 13 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | GREEN VALLEY |
| 12 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tubac Fire District | 180923 |
| 1 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | TOP VIEW |
| 6 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Tubac Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 25 June 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Coronado National Forest | BLUFF |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tumacacori: 1 prospect, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lone Wolf Group | Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten | Prospect | ||
| San Pedro | Silver, Gold, Copper | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Gold, Copper | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tumacacori in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 2021 | Flash Flood | Tumacacori | 1 killed, 1 hurt | One inch of rain in less than 90 minutes caused rapid rises in Josephine Canyon. Two teenagers swimming near a waterfall were swept downstream by a rapid rise in the water level. One teenager drowned and another escaped the floodwaters while sustaining minor injuries and was later rescued. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carmen | 1.3 miles | 20 | |
| Tubac | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Otero | 3.3 miles | 20 | |
| Sotos Crossing (historical) | 4.4 miles | 19 | |
| Agua Linda | 7.6 miles | 19 | |
| Rio Rico | 7.8 miles | 20 | |
| Calabasas | 8.1 miles | 20 | |
| Alto | 9.6 miles | 23 |
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 Tumacacori | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q90635426 | 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 36879. 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.









