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Canyon Day, Arizona

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Fort Apache census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85941. It lies near Bear Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Canyon Day quadrangle. 1,205 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,000 feet above sea level.

Canyon Day within Gila County

Population over time

2 figures

Canyon Day fell from 1,209 to 1,205 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
20101,209
20201,205-4 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

609 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 609 fires within 5 miles of Canyon Day between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,207 acres in total. 73 started naturally. 155 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
Arson/incendiarism155
Debris and open burning120
Natural73
Misuse of fire by a minor72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined64
Smoking45
Recreation and ceremony32
Equipment and vehicle use16
Other causes15
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Fireworks8

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
8 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyNORTH SAWTOOTH TANK
8 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFort Apache Agency7-MILE RIM
6 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFort Apache AgencyG-1
6 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyTHE DANCE
3 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Apache AgencyFATCO
26 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFort Apache AgencySAWMILL
22 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFort Apache AgencyHIGH SCH
16 September 2016Other causesunder an acreFort Apache AgencyFINALLY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila 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 Canyon Day: 3 past producers, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Gila County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canyon Day in 2 storm reports in 2006: 2 flash flood. 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 2006Flash FloodCanyon Day-Flash flooding closed portions of Highway 73 from Canyon Day west to Highway 60 (near Carrizo). Flooding was also reported in Canyon Day Flats and Bear Canyon.
July 2006Flash FloodCanyon Day-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gila 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
Fort Apache Junction1.4 miles12
Cedar Creek Crossing10.8 miles12
Cedar Creek10.9 miles12
Black River Crossing11.0 miles13
Dehorn19.5 miles11
Carrizo20.0 miles12
Sawmill22.7 miles12
Rocky Junction24.3 miles11

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 Canyon DayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1034008The 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 2435. 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.