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Gu Oidak, Arizona

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. The Survey maps it on the Gu Oidak quadrangle. 126 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,051 feet above sea level.

Gu Oidak within Pima County

Population over time

2 figures

Gu Oidak fell from 188 to 126 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
2010188
2020126-62 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Gu Oidak between 2000 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
17 June 2014Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acrePapago AgencyBIG FIELD
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresPapago AgencyBIG FIELDS
8 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyBIG FIELDS
17 May 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresPapago AgencyCAMP
14 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyCORRAL
1 May 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePapago AgencyCAMP FIRE
17 February 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresPapago AgencyKING
14 February 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePapago AgencyALARM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gu Oidak: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gu Oidak in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindGu Oidak$100,000Thunderstorm winds damaged homes and downed power lines from Big Fields to Covered Wells on the Tohono O'odham Nation. Four homes incurred roof damage and one power pole was downed in Big Field. Three power poles were also downed in Covered Wells along Highway 86 which resulted in power outages.

Every storm recorded in Pima 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
Chuwut Murk5.9 miles8
Kaihon Kug6.8 miles14
Kui Tatk8.3 miles14
Cowlic8.3 miles17
Wickchoupai8.6 miles18
Sells8.6 miles17
Vainom Kug8.7 miles14
Kupk9.0 miles8

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 Gu OidakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28384The 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 5410. 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.