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Wild Flower, Arizona

18 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 85027. The Survey maps it on the Union Hills quadrangle.

Wild Flower within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

939 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 939 fires within 5 miles of Wild Flower between 1992 and 2020, burning about 293 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined888
Arson/incendiarism21
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122600
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122601
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101907
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department334318
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101900
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101899
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department331115

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of Wild Flower: 25 unknowns, 22 past producers, 4 producers, 3 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, 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
Calumet & CorneliaCopper, GoldOccurrence
Copper Hill GroupCopper, Silver, Gold, Iron, Sulfur-PyriteProspect
Gravel PitCopper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, GoldUnknown
Happy Canyon PropertyCopperUnknown
Kruger and Sultan-Pat.#4355 & 1906Gold, Copper, SilverUnknown
Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Stone QuarryStonePast ProducerMetamorphic
Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
BluebellGoldUnknown
Contention Pat. 1180GoldOccurrence

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
Valley View1.1 miles18
Desert Valley Estates1.4 miles18
Quail Country Place1.4 miles18
Rose Garden Place III1.6 miles18
Desert Bell Estates II1.8 miles18
Rose Garden Place1.9 miles18
The Town Square2.1 miles18
Villas Plaza2.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 25210. 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.