Low Mountain, Arizona
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the PiƱon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86520. It lies near Wind Whistle Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Low Mountain quadrangle. 631 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,870 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLow Mountain fell from 757 to 631 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 | 757 | |
| 2020 | 631 | -126 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1883 USGS Tusayan quadrangle1:250000
- 1886 USGS Tusayan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Keams Canyon quadrangle1:62500
- 1982 USGS Polacca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Low Mountain quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
32 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Low Mountain between 1993 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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 burning | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Hopi Agency | BENCH |
| 6 August 2000 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Hopi Agency | COUNTYLINE |
| 25 July 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Hopi Agency | MARCUS |
| 20 July 2001 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | FIRSTMESA1 |
| 18 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hopi Agency | HWY 264 M.P. 351 |
| 17 July 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Hopi Agency | MATCHES FIRE |
| 14 July 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | LOW MTN 1 |
| 1 July 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | LOW MIN 02 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke Signal | 4.5 miles | 19 | |
| Keams Canyon | 9.8 miles | 19 | |
| Kokopnyama | 11.1 miles | 19 | |
| Nesuftanga | 11.1 miles | 19 | |
| Pink Arrow | 11.5 miles | 19 | |
| Jeddito | 11.5 miles | 19 | |
| Pinon | 12.6 miles | 15 | |
| Chakpahu | 12.7 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 Low Mountain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4961516 | 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 7437. 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.









