Klagetoh, Arizona
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Defiance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86505. It lies near Wide Ruin Valley. The Survey maps it on the Klagetoh North quadrangle. 181 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,424 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKlagetoh fell from 242 to 181 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 | 242 | |
| 2020 | 181 | -61 (-25%) |
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
- 1973 USGS Klagetoh North quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Ganado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
56 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Klagetoh between 1993 and 2020, burning about 832 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | E. KLAGETOH 1 |
| 7 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | S. KLAGETOH |
| 5 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | SW KLAGETOH |
| 31 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | GREY VALLEY 5 |
| 29 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | WIDERUINS2 |
| 23 August 2005 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | GFD-05-971 |
| 19 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | WIDE RUINS 3 |
| 6 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Puerco Valley Fire District | not named |
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 Klagetoh: 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Klagetoh Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Klagetoh in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 flash flood. 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 2010 | Flash Flood | Klagetoh | - | Flowing water from Wide Ruin Wash stopped traffic as it flowed over Highway 191. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wide Ruins | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Cornfields | 13.1 miles | 16 | |
| Sunrise Springs | 13.5 miles | 16 | |
| Ganado | 14.5 miles | 16 | |
| Pine Springs | 14.7 miles | 15 | |
| Tanner Springs | 16.9 miles | 15 | |
| Burnside | 17.9 miles | 16 | |
| Kinlichee | 18.4 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 Klagetoh | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4958016 | 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 6730. 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.








