East Fork, Arizona
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Apache census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85941. It lies near Nash Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Whiteriver quadrangle. 672 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,240 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresEast Fork fell from 880 to 672 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 880 | |
| 2010 | 699 | -181 (-21%) |
| 2020 | 672 | -27 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1954 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Whiteriver quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Whiteriver quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Nutrioso quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
728 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 728 fires within 5 miles of East Fork between 1992 and 2020, burning about 830 acres in total. 98 started naturally. 175 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 175 |
| Debris and open burning | 151 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 108 |
| Natural | 98 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 61 |
| Smoking | 46 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 41 |
| Other causes | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Fireworks | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | 7-MILE RIM |
| 8 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | not named |
| 30 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | BOURKE CYN |
| 3 September 2004 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | AGENCYTANK |
| 3 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | FATCO |
| 28 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | BRIDGE |
| 27 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | OLD PHS |
| 27 September 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Fort Apache Agency | BIA COMP. |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of East Fork: 6 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Fork in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2013 | Hail | East Fork | - | One inch diameter hail was reported 3 miles east of Whiteriver. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sevenmile | 1.7 miles | 11 | |
| Fort Apache | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Whiteriver | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Indian Pine | 19.5 miles | 22 | |
| Pinetop | 22.6 miles | 21 | |
| Pinetop-Lakeside | 23.8 miles | 21 | |
| Lakeside | 24.7 miles | 21 | |
| Lake of the Woods | 25.4 miles | 21 |
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 East Fork | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1277865 | 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 25319. 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.
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.






