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Vanar, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Bowie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85632. It lies near Powers Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Vanar quadrangle. It stands 3,917 feet above sea level.

Vanar within Cochise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Vanar between 1992 and 2018, burning about 85 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined15
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
19 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeMINERAL MOUNTAIN
16 August 2001Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeDAVID
9 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeRUCA
3 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSAN
17 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeBURRO
30 June 1997Naturalunder an acreGila District OfficeSIMON
28 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresGila District OfficeSIMON
22 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGila District OfficeRAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Vanar: 25 producers, 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, 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
BeckZinc, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Beck MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1885, 1936
Ester MineCopper, IronOccurrence1956
Mineral Mountain MineSilver, Lead, Copper, ZincPast Producer1904
Mineral Mountain MineSilver, LeadPast Producer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel
Unnamed Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
Unnamed Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand and Gravel
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Cochise 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
Wheeler Place1.7 miles18
San Simon7.3 miles18
Yellow Hammer Mill13.3 miles17
Olga14.6 miles17
Taylor Place16.7 miles18
Hilltop19.6 miles21
Galeyville21.1 miles22
Bowie21.6 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.

Wikipedia article on VanarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38249315The 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 24673. 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.