Dennehotso, Arizona
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Dennehotso census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86535. The Survey maps it on the Dennehotso quadrangle. 587 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,016 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDennehotso fell from 746 to 587 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 | 746 | |
| 2020 | 587 | -159 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 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.
- 1892 USGS Canyon De Chelly quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1952 USGS Dinnehotso quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Setsiltso Springs 2 SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Rock Point quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Dennehotso quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dennehotso between 2015 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | DENNOHOTSO |
| 6 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | DENNEHOTSO 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Dennehotso: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Uranium, Molybdenum. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black and Blackwater Mine | Uranium, Vanadium, Molybdenum | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| Uranium Deposit | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Uranium Deposit | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Willie Waters Mine | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | Carnotite, Tyuyamunite |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond Fields | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Sand Springs | 7.7 miles | 15 | |
| Tes Nez Iah | 9.9 miles | 16 | |
| Mexican Water | 13.9 miles | 16 | |
| Mexican Water Trading Post | 14.0 miles | 15 | |
| Rock Point | 14.6 miles | 15 | |
| Totacon | 22.3 miles | 18 | |
| Emmanuel Mission | 24.0 miles | 18 |
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 Dennehotso | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q916228 | 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 3954. 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.







