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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.

Low Mountain within Navajo County

Population over time

2 figures

Low 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.

YearPeople Change
2010757
2020631-126 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

32 since 1993

Regional 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 burning8
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 August 2000Naturalunder an acreHopi AgencyBENCH
6 August 2000Natural2.5 acresHopi AgencyCOUNTYLINE
25 July 2005Naturalunder an acreHopi AgencyMARCUS
20 July 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementFIRSTMESA1
18 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyHWY 264 M.P. 351
17 July 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreHopi AgencyMATCHES FIRE
14 July 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementLOW MTN 1
1 July 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementLOW MIN 02

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Smoke Signal4.5 miles19
Keams Canyon9.8 miles19
Kokopnyama11.1 miles19
Nesuftanga11.1 miles19
Pink Arrow11.5 miles19
Jeddito11.5 miles19
Pinon12.6 miles15
Chakpahu12.7 miles19

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 MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4961516The 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.