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Pinon, Arizona

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the PiƱon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86510. The Survey maps it on the Pinon quadrangle. 1,084 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,348 feet above sea level.

Pinon within Navajo County

On record in Pinon

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records

Population over time

3 figures

Pinon fell from 1,190 to 1,084 between 2000 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
20001,190
2010904-286 (-24%)
20201,084+180 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Pinon Boarding School, Staff Quarters, Navajo Route 41, North of Navajo Route 4, Pinon, Navajo County, AZ
Pinon Boarding School, Staff Quarters, Navajo Route 41, North of Navajo Route 4, Pinon, Navajo County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Pinon Boarding School, Classroom Building, Navajo Route 41, North of Navajo Route 4, Pinon, Navajo County, AZ
Pinon Boarding School, Classroom Building, Navajo Route 41, North of Navajo Route 4, Pinon, Navajo County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Pinon between 1996 and 2017, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHopi AgencyPASTURE CANYON
25 July 2000Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDOBSON 1
30 June 2001Other causesunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementPINON 01
29 June 2007Fireworks3.0 acresHopi AgencyPASTURE CANYON I
19 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementROUTE 41
29 May 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementWEPOWASH01
20 May 2002Misuse of fire by a minor3.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDOTSON 1
28 April 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementARTHUR'S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinon in 10 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 7 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2022Flash FloodPinon-Pictures on Social Media showed that the road from Polacca to Low Mountain was washed out and impassable. The wash likely flooded to Tolani Lake.
July 2022Flash FloodPinon-Six feet of water was flowing through Burnt Corn Wash.
July 2022Flash FloodPinon-A swift water rescue took place along Indian Route 4 by Burnt Corn Wash (about 5 miles east of Pion) where an elderly gentleman in his car was rescued.
July 2021Funnel CloudPinon-A picture of a funnel cloud from the community of Pinon was posted on Social Media.
July 2021Flash FloodPinon-Local Law Enforcement reported that Polacca Wash was overtopping State Route 264 just east of First Mesa.
July 2021Flash FloodPinon-Major flash flooding was reported on a widely used dirt road between Whippoorwill and Low Mountain.
July 2018Heavy RainPinon-Heavy rain over the Polacca Wash basin caused a rise of 1.61 feet between 300 AM MST (4 AM MDT) and 325 AM MST (325 AM MDT) at the river gauge (POLA3) near Second Mesa. The maximum gauge reading was 7.42 feet. By 1030 AM MST, the water had receded to a level of 6.91. The gauge is normally dry with a baseline reading of 5.81 feet.
October 2010Funnel CloudPinon-Possible funnel clouds observed west of Hard Rocks.
August 2010Flash FloodPinon-The Wepo Wash flooded near Pinon.
October 2006Flash FloodPinon-Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused flash flooding in north central Navajo County. Roads were closed and washed out in and around the Whipoorwill area. Some of the affected roads included: Indian Routes 4 and 67 one mile south of Whipoorwill, Indian Route 67 in Whipoorwill, Indian 8027, and Rocky Ridge Road near Dinnebito Wash.

Every storm recorded in Navajo 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
Hard Rocks11.4 miles14
Low Mountain12.6 miles19
Smoke Signal12.7 miles19
Navajo Gospel Mission15.7 miles14
Wepo Village16.3 miles19
Keams Canyon20.0 miles19
First Mesa20.0 miles19
Polacca20.0 miles19

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 PinonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2564235The 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 9512. 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.