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Lukachukai, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chinle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86507. It stands on Lizard Wash. The Survey maps it on the Lukachukai quadrangle. 1,424 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,550 feet above sea level.

Lukachukai within Apache County

Population over time

2 figures

Lukachukai fell from 1,701 to 1,424 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
20101,701
20201,424-277 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Lukachukai between 1992 and 2020, burning about 103 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
Debris and open burning39
Natural17
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementE. LUKACHUCKAI
14 September 1995Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementWHITESANDS
1 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBUFFALO
6 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementLUKE 1
4 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation Management7560-WEST
31 August 1998Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTOTSOCREEK
30 August 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementLUKACHUKAI 5
29 August 2020Debris and open burning3.6 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementLUKACHUKAI 4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Lukachukai: 11 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium, 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
CiscoTitanium, UraniumProspect
Camp MineUranium, VanadiumPast ProducerCarnotite, Tyuyamunite
Camp PropertyUranium, VanadiumPast Producer
JoleoVanadium, UraniumPast Producer
Knife Edge MesaVanadium, UraniumPast Producer
Black No. 1 MineUranium, VanadiumPast ProducerCarnotite, Tyuyamunite
Black No. 2 MineUranium, VanadiumPast ProducerCarnotite, Tyuyamunite
Cisco MineUranium, VanadiumPast ProducerCarnotite, Tyuyamunite
Flag No. 1 MineUranium, VanadiumPast ProducerCarnotite, Tyuyamunite
Flag No. 2 MineUranium, VanadiumPast ProducerCarnotite, Tyuyamunite

Every working recorded in Apache 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
Sehili10.0 miles17
Cove10.3 miles18
Yazzi11.2 miles18
Wheatfields13.5 miles18
Round Rock14.6 miles18
Lower Wheatfields15.5 miles18
Upper Wheatfields15.5 miles18
Red Rock15.7 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 LukachukaiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1828153The 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 7539. 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.