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Many Farms, Arizona

15 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 86538. It stands on Black Mountain Wash. The Survey maps it on the Many Farms quadrangle. 1,243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,308 feet above sea level.

Many Farms within Apache County

Population over time

2 figures

Many Farms fell from 1,348 to 1,243 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
20101,348
20201,243-105 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Many Farms between 1992 and 2019, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
3 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePuerco Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
30 July 1994Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation Management7170-SOUTH
2 July 1992Smoking1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMANYFRM-SE
6 June 1994Debris and open burning1.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMANYFARMS2
5 June 1994Misuse of fire by a minor13 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMANYFARMS1

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Many Farms: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Many Farms in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, 1 lightning, 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
September 2013LightningMany Farms$7,500Fifteen sheep were killed by lightning. Time and location are estimates.
August 2022Flash FloodMany Farms-Major flooding was reported north of Many Farms Lake.
August 2015Funnel CloudMany Farms-A funnel cloud was seen from Many Farms. It reached about halfway to the ground then dissipated.
August 2010Funnel CloudMany Farms-Navajo Police Department observed a funnel cloud west of Many Farms.
August 2010Tornado (EF0)Many Farms-A land spout type tornado was confirmed via a photograph.

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
Coyote Springs8.2 miles14
Round Rock13.5 miles18
Rough Rock14.0 miles14
Chinle14.1 miles15
Del Muerto14.8 miles17
Junction Overlook16.3 miles17
Tahchee17.0 miles14
Lukachukai21.1 miles17

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 Many FarmsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1891946The 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 7659. 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.

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.