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Village Meadows, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Sierra Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85635. The Survey maps it on the Fort Huachuca quadrangle.

Village Meadows within Cochise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Village Meadows between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,620 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined111
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
14 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use370 acresCoronado National ForestONE BRAVO
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFry Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFry Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
30 August 2015Natural3.0 acresCoronado National ForestAREA U
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
3 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoronado National ForestRAWS
23 August 2017Natural11 acresCoronado National ForestMONITOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Village Meadows: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
Charleston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand & Gravel OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Screen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Fry1.3 miles26
Sierra Vista1.7 miles26
Gatewood Housing3.4 miles26
Miles Manor3.7 miles26
De Anza Village3.8 miles26
East Pershing Plaza3.8 miles26
Coronado Village4.0 miles26
West Pershing Plaza4.1 miles26

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 Q122546894The 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 25291. 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.