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Ventana, Arizona

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85321. The Survey maps it on the Ventana quadrangle. 52 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,238 feet above sea level.

Ventana within Pima County

Population over time

2 figures

Ventana grew from 49 to 52 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201049
202052+3 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Ventana between 1995 and 2013, burning about 110 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeVELKO
3 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyROSA
3 June 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresPapago AgencyVENTENNA
19 June 1995Debris and open burning102 acresPapago AgencyVENTANA02
1 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyROUTE 34
17 May 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCATARACT
6 April 2000Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyVENTA
18 December 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeDOT

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ventana: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Geothermal, Gold, 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
Isabella MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1910
Isabella MineGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ZincPast Producer
Isabella WellGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGold, SilverProspect

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ventana in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindVentana$15,000Thunderstorm winds damaged roofs to two homes in Ventana.

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
Vaya Chin9.3 miles13
Oit Ihuk10.4 miles14
Anegam13.0 miles14
Emika13.1 miles13
Noipa Kam13.5 miles14
Hickiwan14.0 miles13
Tatai Toak14.3 miles13
Palo Verde Stand14.3 miles14

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 VentanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28385The 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 13212. 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.