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Velda Rose Gardens, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85206. The Survey maps it on the Buckhorn quadrangle.

Velda Rose Gardens within Maricopa County

On record in Velda Rose Gardens

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

415 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 415 fires within 5 miles of Velda Rose Gardens between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,254 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 were 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/undetermined402
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Department70804
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Departmentnot named
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMesa Fire and Medical Department70271
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Department70432
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Department77528
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office70124
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Department70109
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeNOT NAMED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa 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
Desert Vista Recreational Vehicle Resort0.1 miles21
Venture Out0.6 miles21
Park Place Travel Resort0.6 miles21
Dreamland Villa0.6 miles21
Buckhorn0.7 miles21
Fountain East0.7 miles21
Greenfield Park1.1 miles21
Hacienda de Valencia1.1 miles21

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 Q122557168The 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 37115. 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.