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Del Muerto, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chinle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86503. The Survey maps it on the Del Muerto quadrangle. 258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,440 feet above sea level.

Del Muerto within Apache County

Population over time

2 figures

Del Muerto fell from 329 to 258 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
2010329
2020258-71 (-22%)

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

1 photograph,

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.

Antelope House Ruin, Canyon del Muerto, Chinle, Apache County, AZ
Antelope House Ruin, Canyon del Muerto, Chinle, Apache County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Del Muerto between 1994 and 2019, burning about 99 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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 burning14
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
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
19 September 2006Other causesunder an acreCanyon De Chelly National MonumentWHITE HOUSE TRAIL
19 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDEL MUERTO 1
8 July 2005Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTWINTRAILS
5 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreCanyon De Chelly National MonumentTRASH FIRE
24 July 2002Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNEDELMERTO
2 July 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTSEGI
2 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCNDECHELLY
19 July 2008Naturalunder an acreCanyon De Chelly National MonumentJUNCTION OVERLOOK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Del Muerto: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown
Zealy-Tso Drilling BlockUraniumUnknown

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
Junction Overlook4.2 miles17
Chinle6.2 miles15
Flat Rock13.7 miles15
White Clay14.5 miles18
Many Farms14.8 miles15
Coyote Springs15.4 miles14
Sehili16.0 miles17
Lower Wheatfields16.3 miles18

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 Del MuertoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5801605The 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 25262. 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.