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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.

Cornfields within Apache County

Population over time

2 figures

Cornfields 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.

YearPeople Change
2010255
2020221-34 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

19 since 2004

Regional 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 burning13
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
2 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementW CORNFIELDS
9 August 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSUNRISE 1
12 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementN SUNRISE SPRINGS
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGANADO-01
13 July 2005Smokingunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-05-802
28 June 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCORNFIELD4
27 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementS CORNFIELDS
21 June 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCORNFIELDS 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ganado AreaPumiceOccurrence

Every working 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
Sunrise Springs4.9 miles16
Burnside7.4 miles16
Ganado8.3 miles16
Steamboat Canyon11.2 miles16
Steamboat11.3 miles16
Klagetoh13.1 miles16
Tsintaa Yiti Ii13.9 miles16
Toyei14.2 miles16

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 CornfieldsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4959989The 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.