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Villa Vista, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85345. The Survey maps it on the El Mirage quadrangle.

Villa Vista within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

743 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 743 fires within 5 miles of Villa Vista between 1992 and 2020, burning about 326 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined704
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-110821
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office154088
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101204
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEl Mirage Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSun City Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-133152
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-132158
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEl Mirage Fire Department3065

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Villa Vista: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Mica, Salt. 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
Agua Fria Pit Sun Valley CrushingSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Alonzo Elder Muscovite #1MicaProducer
Southwest Mine & MillSaltProducer
Unidentified Halite OccurrenceHalitePast ProducerHalite
Arizona Sand & Rock, Agua Fria PlanSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel
Union Rock & Materials, El MirageSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
United Metro Pit & Plant #2 GlendalSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Casa del Sol Resorts Number One0.2 miles19
Sunset Village0.3 miles19
Peoria Polynesian Village0.4 miles19
Sun City1.0 miles19
Peoria Estates1.0 miles20
Peoria1.2 miles20
Windmill1.5 miles20
Westgreen Estates1.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 25183. 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.