Cornfields, Arizona
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Defiance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86505. The Survey maps it on the Cornfields quadrangle. 221 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,135 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCornfields fell from 255 to 221 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 | 255 | |
| 2020 | 221 | -34 (-13%) |
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 Fort Defiance quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Fort Defiance quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Cornfields quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Ganado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
19 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Cornfields between 2004 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | W CORNFIELDS |
| 9 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | SUNRISE 1 |
| 12 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | N SUNRISE SPRINGS |
| 4 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | GANADO-01 |
| 13 July 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | GFD-05-802 |
| 28 June 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | CORNFIELD4 |
| 27 June 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | S CORNFIELDS |
| 21 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | CORNFIELDS 2 |
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 Cornfields: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ganado Area | Pumice | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise Springs | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Burnside | 7.4 miles | 16 | |
| Ganado | 8.3 miles | 16 | |
| Steamboat Canyon | 11.2 miles | 16 | |
| Steamboat | 11.3 miles | 16 | |
| Klagetoh | 13.1 miles | 16 | |
| Tsintaa Yiti Ii | 13.9 miles | 16 | |
| Toyei | 14.2 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 Cornfields | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4959989 | 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 3279. 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.








