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Wymola, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85141. It lies near Picacho Peak. The Survey maps it on the Newman Peak quadrangle.

Wymola within Pinal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Wymola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,664 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined91
Smoking32
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
3 September 1993Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictSUNSET
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
21 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
20 September 1993Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
18 September 1995Debris and open burning20 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
17 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Wymola: 6 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Salt, 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
Gibson ClaimsCopper, LeadProspect
Green Monster MineGold, Silver, CopperOccurrenceUnknown
Picacho GroupCopper, Gypsum-Anhydrite, SaltProspect
Picacho GroupGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gold Bell MineCopperProducerVein
Unnamed ProspectCopperOccurrenceUnknown
Unnamed ProspectCopperOccurrenceMalachite
Unnamed ProspectCopperOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Pinal County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wymola in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindWymola$1,000Thunderstorm winds damaged equipment causing power outage to 22 customers for an unknown duration of time.

Every storm recorded in Pinal 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
Picacho6.3 miles19
Red Rock7.0 miles20
Friendly Corners8.2 miles19
Avra9.1 miles20
Eloy10.4 miles19
Laguna12.9 miles19
Nariska13.0 miles20
Toltec14.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122568564The 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 24696. 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.