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Wheeler Place, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Bowie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85632. It lies near Powers Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Doubtful Canyon quadrangle.

Wheeler Place within Cochise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler Place between 1992 and 2018, burning about 16 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined13
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
19 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeMINERAL MOUNTAIN
16 August 2001Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeDAVID
9 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeRUCA
3 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSAN
17 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeBURRO
30 June 1997Naturalunder an acreGila District OfficeSIMON
28 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresGila District OfficeSIMON
22 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGila District OfficeRAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise 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 Wheeler Place: 9 past producers, 5 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Manganese, 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
BeckZinc, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Beck MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1885, 1936
Eloro MineCopperPast Producer
Ester MineCopper, IronOccurrence1956
Steins PassGold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, LeadPast Producer1875
Unnamed Rhyolite Stone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceRhyolite
Volcano MineSilver, Gold, Lead, CopperPast Producer1885, 1982
Federal GroupGold, SilverPast ProducerChlorargyrite, Gold
Sixty-Six MineGold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Coyle MineGold, SilverOccurrenceVein

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
Vanar1.7 miles19
San Simon7.6 miles18
Yellow Hammer Mill12.8 miles17
Olga14.8 miles17
Taylor Place18.2 miles18
Hilltop21.3 miles21
Bowie21.8 miles17
Galeyville22.8 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 25460. 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.