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Nazlini, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chinle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86540. It lies in Nazlini Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Nazlini quadrangle. 505 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,240 feet above sea level.

Nazlini within Apache County

Population over time

2 figures

Nazlini grew from 489 to 505 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
2010489
2020505+16 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Nazlini between 1995 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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 burning15
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
27 August 1995Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAZLINI
6 July 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAZLINICRE
5 July 2011Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementWOODSPRINGS
5 July 2011Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAZLINI RIDGE
29 July 2018Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementS NAZLINI CANYON
27 July 2014Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementWOOD SPRING
27 July 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementLONE TULE1
21 July 2004Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAZCANYON1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Nazlini: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Silica, Semiprecious Gemstone. 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
Beautiful ValleySilica, Semiprecious GemstonePast ProducerReplacement
Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown
Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown
Uranium DepositsUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nazlini in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 2007LightningNazlini1 killedA 21-year-old man from the town of Nazlini was watching a rain swollen waterfall from a metal bridge. He was struck by a lightning bolt while standing on the bridge. He was transported to a Phoenix hospital where he later died. Other individuals in the vicinity of the strike were knocked over by the shock wave but were not seriously injured.

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
Woodspring Trading Post4.6 miles19
Wood Springs5.8 miles19
Flat Rock9.4 miles15
Kinlichee9.8 miles19
Burnside13.7 miles16
Ganado13.7 miles16
Sawmill15.0 miles19
Junction Overlook16.8 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 NazliniAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1894696The 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 8549. 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.