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Ganado, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Defiance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86505. It sits by Red Point. The Survey maps it on the Ganado quadrangle. 883 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,384 feet above sea level.

Ganado within Apache County

On record in Ganado

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 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ganado fell from 1,210 to 883 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
20101,210
2020883-327 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

Photographs

3 photographs,

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.

Hubbell Trading Post, Root Cellar, Ganado, Apache County, AZ
Hubbell Trading Post, Root Cellar, Ganado, Apache County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Hubbell Trading Post, Bunkhouse, Ganado, Apache County, AZ
Hubbell Trading Post, Bunkhouse, Ganado, Apache County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Hubbell Trading Post, Ganado, Apache County, AZ
Hubbell Trading Post, Ganado, Apache County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Ganado between 1997 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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 burning18
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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 2019Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGANADO MESA
26 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCO. RD 426
4 July 2006Fireworksunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementW.HUBBELL T.P
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGANADO-01
20 July 2018Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNR 151 #2
19 July 2006Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMARY 01
18 July 2018Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNR 151
16 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCOOL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ganado: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. 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
Ganado AreaPumiceOccurrence
Ganado AreaPumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ganado in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 4 flash flood. 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
August 2022Flash FloodGanado-Indian Route 15 from Burnside to Greasewood flooded in areas and there were puddles on the road. This is a paved road.
July 2018Flash FloodGanado-The Arizona Department of Transportation reported flooding of State Route 264 at milepost 438 near Burnside due to heavy rain that fell in the region. The road was closed for a couple hours as a preventative measure.
August 2018Flash FloodGanado-The Arizona Department of Transportation reported that State Route 264 was impassible in both directions at milepost 439 due to flash flooding caused by heavy rain.
July 2006Flash FloodGanado-no account filed

Every storm 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
Burnside5.2 miles16
Kinlichee6.9 miles19
Wood Springs8.2 miles19
Cornfields8.3 miles16
Woodspring Trading Post10.0 miles19
Sunrise Springs13.1 miles16
Nazlini13.7 miles19
Klagetoh14.5 miles16

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 GanadoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1493347The 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 4920. 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.