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Ali Chukson, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. It stands on Ali Chukson. The Survey maps it on the Sells East quadrangle. 113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,579 feet above sea level.

Ali Chukson within Pima County

Population over time

2 figures

Ali Chukson fell from 132 to 113 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010132
2020113-19 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Ali Chukson between 1992 and 2016, burning about 97 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined64
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Smoking3
Other causes2

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
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyARTESIA
16 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acrePapago AgencyARTESIA
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresPapago AgencyTOPD WASH
9 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyVAMORI FIRE
7 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyLITTLE TUCSON
6 August 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acrePapago AgencySELLS08
30 August 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePapago AgencySELLS10
3 August 2003Smoking1.0 acresPapago AgencyFIELDS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Ali Chukson: 4 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Gold, 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
Aguinaldo ExtensionCopper, SilverPast Producer
Cinderra Gravity MillTungstenPast Producer
Jaeger Group MineGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer1928, 1932, 1943
Lucido Claim GroupGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Cababi PlacersGoldProducerPlacer
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ali Chukson in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 2 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAli Chukson$10,000Thunderstorm winds damaged two homes in Ali Chukson. One home had major roof and wall damage.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAli Chukson$2,000Thunderstorm winds caused minor damage to a house in Little Tucson on the Tohono O'odham Nation.
August 2008Flash FloodAli Chukson-A swift water rescue occurred at a wash in Sells where two people needed to be rescued.
August 2008Flash FloodAli Chukson-A person was stuck in a vehicle at a wash on Highway 19 south 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
Chukson0.1 miles17
Ali Molina1.6 miles17
Chiawuli Tak1.8 miles17
Artesa3.0 miles17
Sells4.3 miles17
Topawa7.0 miles16
Gu Chuapo7.3 miles16
Haivana Nakya7.9 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 Ali ChuksonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28387The 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 25234. 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.