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Dilkon, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Indian Wells census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86047. It stands on Dilkon Hill. The Survey maps it on the Dilkon quadrangle. 1,194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,886 feet above sea level.

Dilkon within Navajo County

Population over time

3 figures

Dilkon fell from 1,265 to 1,194 between 2000 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
20001,265
20101,184-81 (-6%)
20201,194+10 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Dilkon between 1997 and 2020, burning about 40 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 burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2019Arson/incendiarism15 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDILKON 1
17 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDILCON 1
14 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHopi AgencyCULVERT
3 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDILKON 4
24 June 2020Debris and open burning11 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementFLAT BUTTE
2 June 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementFLAT BUTTE
11 June 1997Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDILCON 1
20 May 2018Debris and open burning4.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDILKON 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dilkon in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2013: 5 flash flood, 2 flood, 2 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1997Thunderstorm WindDilkon$6,000no account filed
August 1997Flash FloodDilkon$5,000Flash flooding was reported along Indian Reservation Route 60 just northwest of Dilkon. Strong thunderstorms with heavy rain 5 miles northeast of Dilkon, produced heavy runoff in Dilkon. Several washes and drainage ditches flooded sending up to 5 foot deep water through the Navajo Tribal Utilities Administration office and maintenance yard and flooding route 60. About 100 feet of chain link fence was destroyed and several vehicles suffered water damage. Twelve 30 foot long telephone poles that were stored in the maintenance yard were carried across the yard and into the fence.
July 2013Flash FloodDilkon-Flood water and debris closed the main road in Dilkon for an hour.
September 2011HailDilkon-Dilkon Police Officers reported 2 inch diameter hail 3 miles west-southwest of Dilkon.
September 2011Funnel CloudDilkon-Dilkon Police Officers reported a brief Funnel Cloud with possible touch down (tornado).
July 2007Flash FloodDilkon-Flash flooding brought high water over route 15 between mile markers 59 and 63 about 5 miles west of Dilkon.
August 2007Flash FloodDilkon-Flash flooding was reported along Navajo Route 15 near mile post 69. Flooding was also reported on Indian Route 6 between White Cone and Indian Wells at mile post 22.
August 2005Funnel CloudDilkon-Dilkon Police reported a funnel cloud in the vicinity of Dilkon.
July 1998FloodDilkon-The Dilkon Police Department reported water one foot deep across the intersection of highway 87 and Navajo Route 15 as Coyote Wash flooded. Minor road damage was also reported.
July 2006Flash FloodDilkon-no account filed
August 2001FloodDilkon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Navajo 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
Cedar Springs5.1 miles20
Castle Butte5.8 miles18
Tees Toh9.1 miles18
Seba Dalkai10.4 miles18
Na Ah Tee11.8 miles18
Indian Wells12.6 miles18
Bidahochi13.8 miles18
White Cone20.2 miles19

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 DilkonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1225516The 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 24399. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.