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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.

Tumacacori within Santa Cruz County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 1937

Taken 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.

San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ
San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
[San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), on Santa Cruz River, Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ.] [East wall, exterior.] [Section and details
[San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), on Santa Cruz River, Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ.] [East wall, exterior.] [Section and details
Photographer not recorded, 1937. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined20
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
15 August 1992Naturalunder an acreCoronado National Forestnot named
17 July 1997Natural1.0 acresCoronado National ForestTUMACACORI
14 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTubac Fire District180936
13 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeGREEN VALLEY
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTubac Fire District180923
1 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictTOP VIEW
6 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTubac Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
25 June 2008Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestBLUFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lone Wolf GroupCopper, Silver, Gold, TungstenProspect
San PedroSilver, Gold, CopperProducer
UnknownGold, CopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Flash FloodTumacacori1 killed, 1 hurtOne 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.

Every storm 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
Carmen1.3 miles20
Tubac3.0 miles20
Otero3.3 miles20
Sotos Crossing (historical)4.4 miles19
Agua Linda7.6 miles19
Rio Rico7.8 miles20
Calabasas8.1 miles20
Alto9.6 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 TumacacoriAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q90635426The 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.