Joseph City, Arizona
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Winslow-Holbrook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86032. It stands on Joseph City Wash. The Survey maps it on the Joseph City quadrangle. 1,307 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,043 feet above sea level.
On record in Joseph City
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 1 record
St. Joseph Bridgelisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresJoseph City fell from 1,386 to 1,307 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,386 | |
| 2020 | 1,307 | -79 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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 Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Joseph City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS St. Joseph 2 NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Joseph City quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
24 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Joseph City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Joseph City Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 10 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 23 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Joseph City Fire District | not named |
| 14 August 1998 | Natural | 1.8 acres | Fort Apache Agency | BIGSKUNKCA |
| 8 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.1 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast District | WASH |
| 8 July 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Joseph City Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 8 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Heber-Overgaard Fire Department | NOT NAMED |
| 6 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Joseph City Fire District | 125 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Joseph City: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Iron, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanson No1 | Gypsum-Anhydrite, Iron, Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Anna Bernice Claims | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| P.Costen | Uranium | Unknown |
Storms near this place
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Joseph City in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 funnel cloud, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joseph City | $1,000 | A thunderstorm wind gust knocked down a medium sized tree on Main Street. |
| September 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Joseph City | - | Pictures of a funnel cloud near Joseph City and Jack Rabbit were posted on social media. |
| September 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Joseph City | - | A land-spout tornado was on the ground briefly south of the Little Colorado River. Dust from the ground was lofted into the air. |
| April 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Joseph City | - | A funnel cloud was observed (filmed) approximately 4 miles west-southwest of Joseph City. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Joseph City | - | Emergency Manager reported that flooding was impacting homes and shut down westbound lane of Interstate-40. Emergency shelter for people and large livestock established in Holbrook. |
| November 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Joseph City | - | A funnel cloud was seen from Joseph City. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Joseph City | - | Afternoon thunderstorms dropped heavy rain in the Joseph City area. A rain gage in the area measured 3.23 inches of rain from 3:00 pm to 4:23 pm. Forty four homes in Joseph City were damaged by flood waters, with fourteen homes deemed receiving major damage. Interstate 40 at mile post 277 was closed for one hour as two feet of water rested on the roadway. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manila | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Penzance | 5.5 miles | 18 | |
| Sierra Plaza Subdivision | 9.5 miles | 18 | |
| Hibbard | 9.8 miles | 14 | |
| Holbrook | 10.0 miles | 18 | |
| Rosedale Heights | 10.1 miles | 18 | |
| Clearview Heights | 10.5 miles | 18 | |
| Lisitzky Subdivision | 10.6 miles | 18 |
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 Joseph City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3476633 | 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 6512. 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.









