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.
Population over time
2 figuresLupton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 25 | |
| 2020 | 19 | -6 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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
- 1971 USGS Lupton quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Sanders quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
92 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | MANUELITO CYN 1 |
| 26 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | S LUPTON |
| 23 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | BROWN |
| 21 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | TEA POT |
| 15 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Puerco Valley Fire District | 222 |
| 15 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | BOWMAN2 |
| 5 August 1994 | Debris and open burning | 4.8 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | MANUELITO2 |
| 23 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | LUPTON 7140 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Lupton | - | Water flowed over Highway 12 and stopped traffic north of Lupton near Oak Springs. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allentown | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Oak Springs | 9.3 miles | 15 | |
| Houck | 9.5 miles | 15 | |
| Pine Springs | 12.5 miles | 15 | |
| Hunters Point | 13.7 miles | 16 | |
| Sanders | 17.6 miles | 15 | |
| Chetco | 17.6 miles | 15 | |
| Saint Michaels | 20.2 miles | 18 |
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 Lupton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5929158 | 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 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.








