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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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Concho within Apache County

Population over time

2 figures

Concho 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.

YearPeople Change
201038
202054+16 (+42%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

Photographs

8 of 29 photographs shown, 1940

Taken 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.

Woman of Spanish extraction looking at some crochet which she made. Concho, Arizona
Woman of Spanish extraction looking at some crochet which she made. Concho, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Cornfield. Concho, Arizona
Cornfield. Concho, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
The Candelarias are large sheep operators at Concho, Arizona
The Candelarias are large sheep operators at Concho, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Home of merchant. Concho, Arizona
Home of merchant. Concho, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Grocery clerk weighing up potatoes. Concho, Arizona
Grocery clerk weighing up potatoes. Concho, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
General store. Concho, Arizona
General store. Concho, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Woman of Spanish extraction. Concho, Arizona
Woman of Spanish extraction. Concho, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Farmstead. Concho, Arizona
Farmstead. Concho, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Apache County

Fires near this place

19 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined14
Natural3
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
14 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictSNAKE
14 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictCOLT
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
17 August 1992Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National Forestnot named
18 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCONCHO
4 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictSIXTY ONE
4 June 2008Natural1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCONCHO
23 June 1992Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Concho CreekDiatomiteOccurrence
Concho Spring Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Concho Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021Flash FloodConcho-Many roads were flooded in Concho. Water was up to the door steps of businesses.
July 2021Flash FloodConcho-Water was flowing through a yard south-southeast of Concho.
July 2015Heavy RainConcho-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain over the Concho Highway between Snowflake and Concho with water over the road in many spots.
July 2015Heavy RainConcho-Heavy rain from thunderstorms flooded several county roads about 12 miles southwest of Concho (CR 8220, 8221, 8206, and 8333).
September 2014Heavy RainConcho-A trained spotter reported 1.02 inches of rain in less than 10 minutes. Lots of small hail also fell during the thunderstorm.
August 2014Heavy RainConcho-Received 0.85 inches of rain in just under an hour.
June 2012Heavy RainConcho-A trained spotter in Concho reported 0.40 inches of rain in thirty minutes.
July 2006Flash FloodConcho-A flash flood covered Highway 61 near milepost 359 about 10 miles southwest of Concho.
July 2006Flash FloodConcho-A flash flood covered the Concho-Snowflake road about 4 miles west of Concho.
July 2005Tornado (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 1997Funnel CloudConcho-National Parks personnel reported a funnel cloud over the entrance of the Petrified Forest Wilderness.
April 2002HailConcho-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Apache 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
Greer Place8.8 miles18
Hunt9.4 miles18
Salado10.7 miles17
El Tule12.9 miles17
Heap Place12.9 miles17
Saint Johns13.2 miles16
Vernon15.7 miles19
Richville18.6 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 ConchoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5264660The 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.