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Fort Apache, 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 85926. It stands on East Fork White River. The Survey maps it on the Whiteriver quadrangle. 113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,056 feet above sea level.

Fort Apache within Navajo County

On record in Fort Apache

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Apache fell from 143 to 113 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
2010143
2020113-30 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

765 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 765 fires within 5 miles of Fort Apache between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,507 acres in total. 78 started naturally. 180 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/incendiarism180
Debris and open burning166
Misuse of fire by a minor112
Natural78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined74
Smoking52
Recreation and ceremony49
Other causes19
Equipment and vehicle use14
Fireworks11
Power generation/transmission/distribution10

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
8 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFort Apache Agency7-MILE RIM
8 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFort Apache Agencynot named
6 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFort Apache AgencyG-1
6 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyTHE DANCE
3 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Apache AgencyFATCO
28 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreFort Apache AgencyBRIDGE
27 September 1998Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyOLD PHS
27 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFort Apache AgencyBIA COMP.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Fort Apache: 5 unknowns, 3 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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
Sevenmile1.7 miles11
East Fork3.1 miles11
Whiteriver3.5 miles11
Indian Pine20.5 miles22
Pinetop23.3 miles21
Pinetop-Lakeside24.3 miles21
Lakeside25.1 miles21
Lake of the Woods25.8 miles21

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 Fort ApacheAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5264668The 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 4740. 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.