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Lupton, Arizona

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fort Defiance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86508. The Survey maps it on the Lupton quadrangle. 19 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,188 feet above sea level.

Lupton within Apache County

Population over time

2 figures

Lupton fell from 25 to 19 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
201025
202019-6 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Lupton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 15 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural15
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2009Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMANUELITO CYN 1
26 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementS LUPTON
23 September 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBROWN
21 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTEA POT
15 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePuerco Valley Fire District222
15 September 1996Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBOWMAN2
5 August 1994Debris and open burning4.8 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMANUELITO2
23 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementLUPTON 7140

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lupton 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Flash FloodLupton-Water flowed over Highway 12 and stopped traffic north of Lupton near Oak Springs.

Every storm 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
Allentown7.0 miles15
Oak Springs9.3 miles15
Houck9.5 miles15
Pine Springs12.5 miles15
Hunters Point13.7 miles16
Sanders17.6 miles15
Chetco17.6 miles15
Saint Michaels20.2 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 LuptonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5929158The 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 7549. 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.

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.