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Woodland Heights, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85204. The Survey maps it on the Mesa quadrangle.

Woodland Heights within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

615 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 615 fires within 5 miles of Woodland Heights between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,272 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined588
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical DepartmentNOT NAMED
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Department71440
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Department71180
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical DepartmentNOT NAMED
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Department70804
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Department70696
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Woodside0.4 miles22
Suntrails0.5 miles22
Suntree0.6 miles22
Summer Mesa0.9 miles21
Summerplace Green1.0 miles22
Suncrest Villas Mesa1.2 miles22
Summer Place Trails1.4 miles22
Knoell Mesa1.4 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 25226. 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.