Fort Defiance, Arizona

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 4 records

• Fort Defiance Indian Hospital, Navajo Indian Reservation, Bonito Drive, Fort Defiancefederal building survey, 64 photographs
• Fort Defiance Indian Hospital, Nurses' Dormitory, Navajo Indian Reservation, Bonito Drive, Fort Defiancefederal building survey, 23 photographs
• Fort Defiance Indian Hospital, Physician's Cottage Garage, Navajo Indian Reservation, Bonito Drive, Fort Defiancefederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Fort Defiance Indian Hospital, Physician's Cottage, Navajo Indian Reservation, Bonito Drive, Fort Defiancefederal building survey, 14 photographs

Fort Defiance fell from 3,624 to 3,541 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.

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.

• 1886 USGS Fort Defiance quadrangle1:250000
• 1892 USGS Fort Defiance quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1954 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Zith-Tusayan Butte 4 NE quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Window Rock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Ganado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Fort Defiance between 1992 and 2020, burning about 198 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 12 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bonita Trading Post
• Window Rock
• Saint Michaels
• Rosebud

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Defiance: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone, 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.

Every working recorded in Apache County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 4747. 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.