Cibecue, Arizona
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Apache census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85911. It stands on Day School Wash. The Survey maps it on the Cibecue quadrangle. 1,816 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,921 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresCibecue grew from 1,331 to 1,816 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,331 | |
| 2010 | 1,713 | +382 (+29%) |
| 2020 | 1,816 | +103 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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 Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Cibecue quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Cibecue quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Show Low quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
223 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Cibecue between 1992 and 2020, burning about 259,410 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 49 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 58 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 49 |
| Natural | 48 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | INDIAN SPR |
| 28 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | BLACK HILL |
| 28 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | not named |
| 23 September 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | RODEO GRD. |
| 16 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | NORTH CBQ |
| 14 September 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | NORTH ENDFIELD |
| 8 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | CIBECUE |
| 7 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | TRUAX CAN. |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Cibecue: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cibecue Area | Uranium | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
15 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cibecue in 15 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 7 flash flood, 4 heavy rain, 2 wildfire, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2021 | Heavy Rain | Cibecue | - | Heavy rain fell across the upslope areas of southern Navajo County. Amounts ranged from less than an inch to 2.36 inches. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Cibecue | - | Heavy rain (around an inch) produced minor off and on street flooding in Wagon Wheel near Show Low/Lake Side. Up to three inches of rain fell in Cibeque causing washes to flow over roads several inches deep. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Cibecue | - | A 1 to 2 foot rise on Cibecue Creek was reported near Cibecue. A five foot rise was reported on a stream gauge downstream of Cibecue. The drainage area was burned in 2002 in the Rodeo-Chediski Fire. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Cibecue | - | Heavy rain from a thunderstorm caused flooding over Indian Route 12 near Cibecue. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Cibecue | - | Heavy rain from a thunderstorm caused flooding in Cebecue and along Indian Route 12 to Highway 60. The flood water reached the bedroom windows in at least one house in Cebecue. |
| December 2007 | Heavy Rain | Cibecue | - | Heavy rain fell across Navajo County through the day. Snowflake, in the rain shadow of the Mogollon Rim received 0.48. |
| December 2007 | Heavy Rain | Cibecue | - | Heavy rain fell across southern Navajo County from December 7th though the 11th. The snow level gradually lowered with the first part of the storm. The second half of the storm brought rapidly lowering snow levels. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Cibecue | - | A large area of thunderstorms caused flash flooding from heavy rain across Navajo County from Cibecue to Snowflake. Highway 277 near Snowflake was a lake and several homes were flooded in Snowflake. Cottonwood Wash was over its banks just west of Snowflake. Paper Mill Road was flooded in Snowflake. Highway 60 was close due to a flash flood induced rock slide. Washes were running very high in Cibecue with several roads closed. Cibecue Wash was running 10 feet deep...it is normally less than a foot deep. |
| April 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Cibecue | - | A Law Enforcement officer reported a funnel cloud from Cibecue. |
| September 2003 | Flash Flood | Cibecue | - | Flash flooding caused Cibeque creek rise 8 to 10 feet in the town of Cibeque. |
| September 2002 | Flash Flood | Cibecue | - | Cibecue Creek was up 7 feet in town. Side washes were also flooding in town. Water entered two homes. Indian Route 12 was flooded at milepost 10. By 5:45 PM, the water began receding. By 6:10 PM, the water was down to 2-3 feet in the Cibecue Creek and the road re-opened. |
| June 2002 | Wildfire | Cibecue | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Flood | Cibecue | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Wildfire | Cibecue | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Cibecue | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cibecue Creek | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Grasshopper | 8.0 miles | 16 | |
| Pinedale | 22.0 miles | 17 | |
| Linden | 24.0 miles | 16 | |
| Clay Springs | 24.1 miles | 17 | |
| Overgaard | 24.1 miles | 18 | |
| Aripine | 25.3 miles | 17 | |
| Burton | 26.7 miles | 16 |
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 Cibecue | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1091504 | 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 2921. 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.








