Greasewood, Arizona
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Indian Wells census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86505. The Survey maps it on the Greasewood quadrangle. 372 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,909 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresGreasewood fell from 581 to 372 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 | 581 | |
| 2010 | 547 | -34 (-6%) |
| 2020 | 372 | -175 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1886 USGS Fort Defiance quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Fort Defiance quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Greasewood quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Ganado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Greasewood between 2005 and 2020, burning about 43 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 burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | N GREASEWOOD |
| 23 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | LOWER GREASEWOOD-1 |
| 17 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | GFD-05-831 |
| 1 July 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | SW GREASEWOOD |
| 4 June 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.4 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | STEAMBOAT WASH |
| 29 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | SE GREASEWOOD |
| 14 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | SW GREASEWOOD |
| 1 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | GREASEWOOD 3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Greasewood: 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Uranium Deposit | Uranium | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greasewood in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Flood | Greasewood | $1,000 | Steamboat Wash flooded over Indian Reservation Route 15 just west of Greasewood. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Greasewood | - | One inch diameter hail was reported in Greasewood Springs. |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Greasewood | - | Flash flooding unearthed two main water pipelines (8 and 10 inch) which had to be shut down. This left around 75 people with out flowing water in Indian Wells, Dilkon, and Seba areas. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Greasewood | - | A photo on social media showed a dirt road that was partially washed out north of Greasewood Springs Chapter House. A video on social media also showed a significant rise on wash. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Greasewood | - | Ten inches of water and debris were flowing across a roadway north of the town of Grease wood. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Buttes | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| White Cone | 12.5 miles | 19 | |
| Bidahochi | 13.3 miles | 18 | |
| Indian Wells | 14.5 miles | 18 | |
| Na Ah Tee | 15.4 miles | 18 | |
| Kokopnyama | 22.8 miles | 19 | |
| Jeddito | 22.8 miles | 19 | |
| Nesuftanga | 23.3 miles | 19 |
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 Greasewood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1544211 | 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 5336. 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.








