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Wickchoupai, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. The Survey maps it on the Ko Vaya quadrangle. It stands 2,484 feet above sea level.

Wickchoupai within Pima 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Wickchoupai between 1992 and 2016, burning about 10 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
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
10 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyCAREER
8 July 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePapago AgencyHWY86-MP97
28 June 2013Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestSYCAMORE
26 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencySTOCK
25 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePapago AgencyWHITE
14 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyCOYOTE #1
14 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyCOYOTE #2
14 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyCOYOTE #3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 63 workings within 5 miles of Wickchoupai: 35 past producers, 11 producers, 8 unknowns, 6 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Silver, Copper, 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
Cunquian MineCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Emperor and Duchess MinesCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
High Card MineGold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead, MolybdenumPast ProducerVein
Mildren MineLead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Zinc, Vanadium, MolybdenumPast Producer1932, 1941
Mildren Mine GroupGold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Vanadium, ZincPast Producer
Picacho MillTungstenPast Producer
Picacho MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Lead, ZincProducer1850, 1965
Picacho MineGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Picacho Peak PlacerIronUnknown
Rochester GroupCopper, Gold, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wickchoupai in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 1 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 3 deaths. 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 2008Flash FloodWickchoupai3 killedSwift water rescue was attempted at Sells Wash near Sells. The vehicle was washed away attempting to cross wash. Three people died and two were rescued.
August 2021FloodWickchoupai-More than 1.5 of rain in 3 hours caused the Artesia Wash to flow swiftly and to flood Highway 86 west of Sells.

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
Santa Cruz2.2 miles18
Nolic2.7 miles18
Santa Lucia4.6 miles18
Rincon5.0 miles18
Ko Vaya5.2 miles18
San Luis5.6 miles18
Sells6.7 miles17
Comobabi7.5 miles19

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 WickchoupaiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38249500The 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 24689. 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.