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Twin Buttes, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Arivaca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85614. It stands on Twin Buttes. The Survey maps it on the Twin Buttes quadrangle.

Twin Buttes within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Twin Buttes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined55
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Debris and open burning1
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
22 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreen Valley Fire Districtnot named
8 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCRUZ
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictMCGEE
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreen Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
6 July 2008Natural7.6 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeDUVAL
3 July 2019Naturalunder an acreGreen Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
27 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreen Valley Fire District6523

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 94 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 94 workings within 5 miles of Twin Buttes: 57 past producers, 20 producers, 15 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Silver. 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
Alpha MineCopper, Silver, Zinc, Lead, GoldProducer1876, 1954
Anamax QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Annete MineSilver, Zinc, Gold, Copper, LeadProducerBornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Antelope ClaimsSilver, Lead, ZincOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Antelope ClaimsLead, Zinc, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Arizona No. 3 MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, GoldProducer1948, 1966
Asbestos ProspectAsbestosOccurrence
ConquerorGold, SilverPast Producer
Contention MineZinc, Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, ManganeseProducer1920, 1947
Contention MineCopper, Gold, Lead, Manganese, Silver, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twin Buttes in 2 storm reports in 2021: 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
August 2021Flash FloodTwin Buttes-Two to four inches of rain in 90 minutes caused flash flooding of washes up to 3 feet deep across Arivaca Rd. prompting its closure.
August 2021Flash FloodTwin Buttes-Heavy rain of 1 to 2 in 90 minutes caused flash flooding in rural areas west of Green Valley. Mission Rd. north of Duval Mine Rd. was closed.

Every storm recorded in Pima 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
Green Valley Pueblo Estates3.7 miles20
Green Valley4.9 miles20
San Xavier5.2 miles21
Continental5.7 miles20
Duval5.8 miles20
Sahuarita6.7 miles20
East Sahuarita7.5 miles20
Sahuarita Heights7.9 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24663. 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.