Bitter Springs, Arizona
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Tuba City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86040. The Survey maps it on the Bitter Springs quadrangle. 355 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,115 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBitter Springs fell from 452 to 355 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 452 | |
| 2020 | 355 | -97 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Echo Cliffs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1891 USGS Echo Cliffs quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
- 1954 USGS Tanner Wash quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Marble Canyon quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Marble Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Marble Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Glen Canyon Dam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Bitter Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bitter Springs between 2007 and 2018, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 June 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | BITTER SPRINGS |
| 11 May 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | HWY 89A MP 521 |
| 14 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | BITTER SPRINGS 1 |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bitter Springs: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Bentonite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Echo Cliffs | Bentonite | Occurrence | Bentonite |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marble Canyon | 12.9 miles | 25 | |
| Chair Crossing | 17.1 miles | 25 | |
| Page | 22.4 miles | 23 | |
| One Mile | 24.4 miles | 22 | |
| Greenehaven | 25.7 miles | 26 | |
| Wahweap | 26.8 miles | 23 | |
| Jacob Lake | 30.4 miles | 26 | |
| Kaibito | 30.8 miles | 19 |
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 Bitter Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q878966 | The 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 25249. 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.







