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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.

Joseph City within Navajo County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Joseph 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,386
20201,307-79 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

24 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined18
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJoseph City Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
10 September 1993Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
23 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJoseph City Fire Districtnot named
14 August 1998Natural1.8 acresFort Apache AgencyBIGSKUNKCA
8 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictWASH
8 July 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreJoseph City Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
8 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHeber-Overgaard Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJoseph City Fire District125

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hanson No1Gypsum-Anhydrite, Iron, UraniumUnknown
Anna Bernice ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
P.CostenUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015Thunderstorm WindJoseph City$1,000A thunderstorm wind gust knocked down a medium sized tree on Main Street.
September 2022Funnel CloudJoseph City-Pictures of a funnel cloud near Joseph City and Jack Rabbit were posted on social media.
September 2022Tornado (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 2020Funnel CloudJoseph City-A funnel cloud was observed (filmed) approximately 4 miles west-southwest of Joseph City.
July 2018Flash FloodJoseph 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 2016Funnel CloudJoseph City-A funnel cloud was seen from Joseph City.
July 1998Flash FloodJoseph 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.

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
Manila4.3 miles18
Penzance5.5 miles18
Sierra Plaza Subdivision9.5 miles18
Hibbard9.8 miles14
Holbrook10.0 miles18
Rosedale Heights10.1 miles18
Clearview Heights10.5 miles18
Lisitzky Subdivision10.6 miles18

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476633The 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.