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.
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
Salt River Canyon Bridgelisted 1988- Black River Bridgelisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresCarrizo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 127 | |
| 2020 | 92 | -35 (-28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1954 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Carrizo quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Carrizo quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
124 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 82 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | NAVAJO CO. |
| 29 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | WILD STEER |
| 28 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | not named |
| 23 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | CBQ JCT |
| 20 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | WATERFALL |
| 13 September 2020 | Natural | 11 acres | Fort Apache Agency | RED KNOLL |
| 1 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | CARRIZO JCT. |
| 1 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | MP.1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Mesa Tank | Limestone, General | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Occurrence | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Gypsum |
Storms near this place
10 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Carrizo | - | 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 2021 | Flash Flood | Carrizo | - | 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 2020 | Flash Flood | Carrizo | - | A stream gauge on Carrizo Creek reported a 2.4 foot rise in water. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Carrizo | - | The river gauge on Cibecue Creek showed a 2.15 foot rise from 1:15AM MST to 1:30AM MST. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Carrizo | - | 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 2018 | Heavy Rain | Carrizo | - | 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 2017 | Flash Flood | Carrizo | - | 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 2016 | Flash Flood | Carrizo | - | 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 2015 | Flash Flood | Carrizo | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Carrizo | - | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Creek | 9.1 miles | 12 | |
| Cedar Creek Crossing | 10.0 miles | 12 | |
| Black River Crossing | 19.8 miles | 13 | |
| Canyon Day | 20.0 miles | 12 | |
| Seneca | 20.2 miles | 18 | |
| Fort Apache Junction | 20.7 miles | 12 | |
| Chrysotile | 22.9 miles | 15 | |
| Sawmill | 26.6 miles | 12 |
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 Carrizo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5046468 | 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 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.







