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Carrizo, 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 stands on Corduroy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carrizo quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,918 feet above sea level.

Carrizo within Gila County

On record in Carrizo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Carrizo fell from 127 to 92 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
2010127
202092-35 (-28%)

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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Carrizo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 761 acres in total. 82 started naturally. 12 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
Natural82
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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 AgencyNAVAJO CO.
29 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyWILD STEER
28 September 1992Naturalunder an acreFort Apache Agencynot named
23 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Apache AgencyCBQ JCT
20 September 1997Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyWATERFALL
13 September 2020Natural11 acresFort Apache AgencyRED KNOLL
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyCARRIZO JCT.
1 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyMP.1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Carrizo: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Cedar Mesa TankLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed OccurrenceGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceGypsum

Every working recorded in Gila County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carrizo in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 9 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2024Flash FloodCarrizo-The river guage on Carrizo Crreek showed a rapid 2 foot rise starting at 6 PM on August 22 and peaked at 1100 PM. The flow decreased and leveled out around 400 AM on Agust 23.
September 2021Flash FloodCarrizo-Carrizo Creek near Carrizo (CRZA3) rose from 1 to 3.7 feet in less than an hour. The water dropped back below 2 feet about 3 hours later.
July 2020Flash FloodCarrizo-A stream gauge on Carrizo Creek reported a 2.4 foot rise in water.
August 2019Flash FloodCarrizo-The river gauge on Cibecue Creek showed a 2.15 foot rise from 1:15AM MST to 1:30AM MST.
July 2018Flash FloodCarrizo-Heavy rain over the Cedar Fire scar caused a flash flood in Cedar Creek. The water reached 5 feet deep. Rainfall over the the town of Cedar creek also washed out private driveways.
July 2018Heavy RainCarrizo-Several driveways were washed out in town because the water flow from the heavy rain was more than the culverts in the ditch could handle.
July 2017Flash FloodCarrizo-Heavy rain over the Cedar Fire scar produced flash flooding in Carrizo Creek. The river gauge at Carrizo peak rose to 10 feet (215 PM MST). The creek was back down to 5 feet by 330 PM MST.
June 2016Flash FloodCarrizo-Radar estimated 1.50 to 2.50 inches of rain over the central part of the Cedar Fire scar starting around 530 PM MST. A 4 to 5 foot flood crest reached the Highway 73 bridge at the town of Cedar Creek at 720 PM MST.
July 2015Flash FloodCarrizo-USGS river gauge measured a 5 foot rise in Carrizo Creek near Carrizo between 500 PM and 600 PM MST. The maximum flow reached 2470 CFS in a creek that usually runs less than 100 CFS.
August 2007Flash FloodCarrizo-Heavy rain caused a rock slide that close Highway 60 at mile marker 321. Flash flooding was observed on State Route 73. Huston Creek overflowed in Star Valley and flooded about 20 homes and/or trailers.

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
Cedar Creek9.1 miles12
Cedar Creek Crossing10.0 miles12
Black River Crossing19.8 miles13
Canyon Day20.0 miles12
Seneca20.2 miles18
Fort Apache Junction20.7 miles12
Chrysotile22.9 miles15
Sawmill26.6 miles12

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 CarrizoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5046468The 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 2481. 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.