Concho, Arizona
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the St. Johns census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85924. The Survey maps it on the Concho quadrangle. 54 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,942 feet above sea level.
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Population over time
2 figuresConcho grew from 38 to 54 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 | 38 | |
| 2020 | 54 | +16 (+42%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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 St Johns quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS St Johns quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Concho quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Springerville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
8 of 29 photographs shown, 1940Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Every photograph of Apache County
Fires near this place
19 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Concho between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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/undetermined | 14 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast District | SNAKE |
| 14 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast District | COLT |
| 17 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 17 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | not named |
| 18 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | CONCHO |
| 4 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast District | SIXTY ONE |
| 4 June 2008 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | CONCHO |
| 23 June 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Concho: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials, Pumice, Diatomite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Concho Creek | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Concho Spring Cinder Deposit | Volcanic Materials | Past Producer | ||
| Concho Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Concho in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 heavy rain, 4 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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 2021 | Flash Flood | Concho | - | Many roads were flooded in Concho. Water was up to the door steps of businesses. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Concho | - | Water was flowing through a yard south-southeast of Concho. |
| July 2015 | Heavy Rain | Concho | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain over the Concho Highway between Snowflake and Concho with water over the road in many spots. |
| July 2015 | Heavy Rain | Concho | - | Heavy rain from thunderstorms flooded several county roads about 12 miles southwest of Concho (CR 8220, 8221, 8206, and 8333). |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Concho | - | A trained spotter reported 1.02 inches of rain in less than 10 minutes. Lots of small hail also fell during the thunderstorm. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Concho | - | Received 0.85 inches of rain in just under an hour. |
| June 2012 | Heavy Rain | Concho | - | A trained spotter in Concho reported 0.40 inches of rain in thirty minutes. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Concho | - | A flash flood covered Highway 61 near milepost 359 about 10 miles southwest of Concho. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Concho | - | A flash flood covered the Concho-Snowflake road about 4 miles west of Concho. |
| July 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Concho | - | An Apache County Sheriff's Deputy reported seeing a tornado near Concho. It was possibly a "gustnado" along an outflow in that area. |
| October 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Concho | - | National Parks personnel reported a funnel cloud over the entrance of the Petrified Forest Wilderness. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Concho | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greer Place | 8.8 miles | 18 | |
| Hunt | 9.4 miles | 18 | |
| Salado | 10.7 miles | 17 | |
| El Tule | 12.9 miles | 17 | |
| Heap Place | 12.9 miles | 17 | |
| Saint Johns | 13.2 miles | 16 | |
| Vernon | 15.7 miles | 19 | |
| Richville | 18.6 miles | 17 |
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 Concho | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5264660 | 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 3155. 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.







