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Utevak, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. The Survey maps it on the Aguirre Peak quadrangle. It stands 2,615 feet above sea level.

Utevak within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Utevak between 1993 and 2016, burning about 36 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
23 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencySAN MIGUEL FIRE
7 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencySKOMELIK2
25 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyCHOULIC
2 June 2002Other causes10 acresPapago AgencyVAMORI2
1 June 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresPapago AgencyCOLDFIELDS
31 May 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencySOUTHKOMEL
21 May 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresPapago AgencyVAMORI
8 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencySIGNAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima 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 Utevak: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Tungsten, Copper, Tungsten. 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
CoplenTungstenOccurrence
Grey Wolf GroupCopper, TungstenUnknown
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

Every working 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
South Komelik1.9 miles16
Choulic2.8 miles16
Kuit Vaya4.0 miles16
Chutum Vaya5.5 miles16
Ak Chut Vaya5.9 miles16
San Miguel6.4 miles17
Kahachi Miliuk7.5 miles16
Kom Kug7.6 miles17

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 Q30647473The 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 25247. 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.