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.
Population over time
2 figuresNazlini 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 489 | |
| 2020 | 505 | +16 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 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
- 1955 USGS Nazlini quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Zith-Tusayan Butte 2 NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Nazlini quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Ganado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
28 since 1995Regional 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 burning | 15 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAZLINI |
| 6 July 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAZLINICRE |
| 5 July 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | WOODSPRINGS |
| 5 July 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAZLINI RIDGE |
| 29 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | S NAZLINI CANYON |
| 27 July 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | WOOD SPRING |
| 27 July 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | LONE TULE1 |
| 21 July 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAZCANYON1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful Valley | Silica, Semiprecious Gemstone | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| Uranium Deposit | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Uranium Deposit | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Uranium Deposits | Uranium | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Lightning | Nazlini | 1 killed | A 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodspring Trading Post | 4.6 miles | 19 | |
| Wood Springs | 5.8 miles | 19 | |
| Flat Rock | 9.4 miles | 15 | |
| Kinlichee | 9.8 miles | 19 | |
| Burnside | 13.7 miles | 16 | |
| Ganado | 13.7 miles | 16 | |
| Sawmill | 15.0 miles | 19 | |
| Junction Overlook | 16.8 miles | 17 |
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 Nazlini | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1894696 | 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 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.










