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Vista del Cerro, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85028. The Survey maps it on the Paradise Valley quadrangle.

Vista del Cerro within Maricopa County

On record in Vista del Cerro

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

13 surveys from 25 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

978 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 978 fires within 5 miles of Vista del Cerro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined928
Arson/incendiarism22
Natural16
Power generation/transmission/distribution12

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101906
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department334318
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department331822
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-142070
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111664
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111662
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-142058

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Vista del Cerro: 6 occurrences, 6 past producers, 5 unknowns, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Gold, Kyanite, Silica. 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
Cram's Gold Standard ProspectMercury, Silver, Copper, GoldPast ProducerVein
MarionGold, Silver, BromineUnknown
Mercury GroupMercury, CopperPast ProducerCinnabar
Nita JeanStoneUnknown
Rico GroupMercury, Copper, SilverPast Producer1916
Rico Mercury-Pat.#4047Mercury, Silver, CopperPast Producer1916
Seal Rock GroupKyanite, Mica, MercuryOccurrenceCinnabar, Kyanite, Mica
Sealrock GroupMercury, Mica, KyaniteUnknown
Silica OccurrenceSilicaOccurrenceQuartz
Victoria QuicksilverMercury, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrence

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
Firebrand Ranch0.9 miles25
Doubletree Canyon1.0 miles25
Camelback Estates IV1.4 miles25
The Preserve1.4 miles18
Village Fairways1.8 miles25
Orangetree Estates2.0 miles25
Links Point2.1 miles25
Stony Mountain Villas2.2 miles18

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 Q122545711The 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 25191. 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.