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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.

Dennehotso within Apache County

Population over time

2 figures

Dennehotso 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.

YearPeople Change
2010746
2020587-159 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

2 since 2015

Regional 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 burning2

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
5 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDENNOHOTSO
6 April 2020Debris and open burning5.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDENNEHOTSO 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Black and Blackwater MineUranium, Vanadium, MolybdenumPast ProducerReplacement
Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown
Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown
Willie Waters MineUranium, VanadiumPast ProducerCarnotite, Tyuyamunite

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
Diamond Fields3.2 miles19
Sand Springs7.7 miles15
Tes Nez Iah9.9 miles16
Mexican Water13.9 miles16
Mexican Water Trading Post14.0 miles15
Rock Point14.6 miles15
Totacon22.3 miles18
Emmanuel Mission24.0 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 DennehotsoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q916228The 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.