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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.

Greasewood within Navajo County

Population over time

3 figures

Greasewood 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.

YearPeople Change
2000581
2010547-34 (-6%)
2020372-175 (-32%)

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.

Fires near this place

13 since 2005

Regional 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 burning8
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementN GREASEWOOD
23 July 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementLOWER GREASEWOOD-1
17 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-05-831
1 July 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSW GREASEWOOD
4 June 2018Arson/incendiarism7.4 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSTEAMBOAT WASH
29 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSE GREASEWOOD
14 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSW GREASEWOOD
1 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGREASEWOOD 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
QuarryStoneUnknown
Uranium DepositUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1997FloodGreasewood$1,000Steamboat Wash flooded over Indian Reservation Route 15 just west of Greasewood.
June 2024HailGreasewood-One inch diameter hail was reported in Greasewood Springs.
July 2022Flash FloodGreasewood-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 2021Flash FloodGreasewood-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 2018Flash FloodGreasewood-Ten inches of water and debris were flowing across a roadway north of the town of Grease wood.

Every storm 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
Twin Buttes6.5 miles15
White Cone12.5 miles19
Bidahochi13.3 miles18
Indian Wells14.5 miles18
Na Ah Tee15.4 miles18
Kokopnyama22.8 miles19
Jeddito22.8 miles19
Nesuftanga23.3 miles19

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 GreasewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1544211The 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.