Arizona land markings

Texas T

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A little different question today. These are concentric marks on the ground at a location in Arizona. The image is a Google Satellite image fully zoomed in. There are tire tracks going from the lower left corner to top middle of the image to give you a sense of size/perspective. This is former ranch / farm property.

I'm curious as to what the round circles to the right of the tire tracks could be. There is one large one in the center of the image and then two (maybe three) smaller ones in the lower right corner. They appear to be too uniform to be someone doing donuts in the desert so I'm thinking some sort of buildings / facilities were located here, but what?



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That's certainly a plausible answer Terry, but it doesn't explain the overlapping circles. And I think the smaller ones are going to be less than 40 feet. I'll have to swing by tomorrow morning and walk it on foot for a little while. I'll keep this open in case anyone else might have another suggestion. The next time I visit my son in Sleepy Hollow we'll need to get together for a beer.
 

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Can't see the picture. A "do not enter" sign type symbol is all that shows up.
 

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I can't see the pictures either, but if I were to guess by the description....
I would say that they are crop circles form raising crops with sprinklers that run in complete circles.
Referred to as pivot irrigation.

Just a guess without a picture....
 

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I don't know why the photo errored out. I've reposted it. The circles are WAY smaller than crop irrigation circles.
 

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Hmmm... since the Google photos keep disappearing, here's an upload of the image.
 

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