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Oak Springs, 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 86511. The Survey maps it on the Uranium Spring quadrangle. 54 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,542 feet above sea level.

Oak Springs within Apache County

Population over time

2 figures

Oak Springs fell from 63 to 54 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
201063
202054-9 (-14%)

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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Oak Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 1 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
Natural27
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism1
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
4 August 2010Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementW. OAK SPRINGS
2 August 2005Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBOWMANS 01
14 August 1994Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation Management7560-ROAD
13 August 2012Natural2.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementE. BOWMAN PARK
31 July 2012Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementOAK SPRING SOUTH 2
31 July 1998Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementS-PINESPRG
30 July 2019Natural1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNW OAK SPRINGS
26 July 2013Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBOWMAN PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oak Springs: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, 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
Hunters PointStone, Crushed/Broken, GranitePast ProducerGranite

Every working 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
Hunters Point5.1 miles16
Lupton9.3 miles15
Pine Springs9.4 miles15
Saint Michaels11.8 miles18
Allentown12.8 miles15
Houck13.9 miles15
Window Rock14.7 miles18
Bonita Trading Post18.3 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 Oak SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4957548The 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 25269. 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.