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Aztec, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wellton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85333. The Survey maps it on the Aztec Hills quadrangle. 2 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 509 feet above sea level.

Aztec within Yuma County

Population over time

2 figures

Aztec fell from 47 to 2 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
201047
20202-45 (-96%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Aztec between 1994 and 2014, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined6
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHAYSTACK
23 July 2006Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTREE
4 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTACNA
22 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
9 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictDIABLO
28 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
22 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCRISTOBAL
2 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCANYON DIABLO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yuma County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Aztec: 5 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Aztec QuarrySand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown

Every working recorded in Yuma County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aztec in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 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 2018Thunderstorm WindAztec-Isolated thunderstorms with strong gusty outflow winds developed over the open deserts of southern Yuma County during the morning hours on July 21st. At 0525MST a mesonet station, the Desert Research Institute Spot Road station, recorded a wind gust of 60 mph. The station was located about 7 miles southwest of the town of Sentinel, to the south of Interstate 8 and southeast of Dateland.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindAztec-A trained weather spotter reported that 2 semi-trucks were blown off of Interstate 8 about 6 miles west of Sentinel. The strong thunderstorm downburst winds were estimated to be in excess of 60 knots.

Every storm recorded in Yuma 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
Dateland5.2 miles18
Palomas6.1 miles17
Horn8.8 miles18
Stoval10.0 miles18
Kofa11.2 miles19
Hyder14.3 miles21
Kim14.7 miles16
Mohawk17.5 miles17

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 AztecAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5715129The 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 24315. 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.