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Cibola, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Parker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85328. The Survey maps it on the Cibola quadrangle. 198 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 243 feet above sea level.

Cibola within La Paz County

Population over time

3 figures

Cibola grew from 172 to 198 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.

YearPeople Change
2000172
2010250+78 (+45%)
2020198-52 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Cibola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,331 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCibola National Wildlife RefugeDAVIS LAKE
18 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
9 August 2006Natural730 acresCibola National Wildlife RefugeWALTERS
8 August 2005Natural39 acresCibola National Wildlife RefugeGAMER
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5,169 acresCibola National Wildlife RefugeTHREE SLASHES
23 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCibola National Wildlife RefugeRADIO
22 August 2013Natural1.0 acresCibola National Wildlife RefugeHART MINE
17 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictOXBOW

Every fire recorded in La Paz County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Cibola: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Iron. 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
Agate? SiteQuartz, Semiprecious GemstonePast ProducerAgate
Cibola GroupManganesePast Producer
Grand Central MineGold, Copper, IronPast ProducerVein
Grand Central MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
Jupiter ProspectGoldOccurrence
Trigo Gold PlacersGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in La Paz County

Storms near this place

6 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cibola in 6 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2021Flash FloodCibola$15,000A video on social media showed a tractor trailer attempting to cross a flooded part of Highway 95 at MP 61. As the tractor trailer drove through the flowing flood waters, it quickly tipped over onto its side. According to the Arizona Department of Transportation, Highway 95 ended up closing due to the flooding. No injuries were reported.
August 2022Flash FloodCibola-Flooding reported on US-95 near Milepost 72. No damages or injuries were reported.
September 2022Flash FloodCibola-US-95 was impassable at around mile marker 69 due to overflowing water from the washes intersecting the highway. No damages or injuries were reported.
August 2022Flash FloodCibola-US-95 near Milepost 69 was flooded. Timing estimated from radar. No damages or injuries were reported.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCibola-Yuma Proving Ground Station 6 mesonet recorded a 64 mph gust.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindCibola-Scattered thunderstorms developed across the western portion of La Paz County during the evening hours on September 7th and some of the stronger storms generated outflow wind gusts in excess of 60 mph. A mesonet weather station in far southern La Paz County, labeled YP013, measured a peak gust to 64 mph at 2016MST. The station was located 5 miles northeast of Martinez lake, northeast of Castle Dome Landing and west of Highway 95. No damage was reported due to the strong wind.

Every storm recorded in La Paz 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
Nommel Place16.2 miles21
Nortons Landing18.4 miles21
Ehrenberg21.2 miles21
Olive City (historical)21.6 miles21
Morgantown24.6 miles25
La Paz (historical)28.0 miles25
La Paz Valley28.7 miles17
Quartzsite33.3 miles17

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 CibolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1091546The 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 24371. 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.