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Red Mesa, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sweetwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86514. It stands on Red Mesa. The Survey maps it on the Toh Atin Mesa East quadrangle. 354 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,364 feet above sea level.

Red Mesa within Apache County

Population over time

3 figures

Red Mesa grew from 237 to 354 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
2000237
2010480+243 (+103%)
2020354-126 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Red Mesa between 2005 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
10 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use4.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRED MESA 1
10 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use4.8 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRED MESA 2
10 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRED MESA 3
11 July 2005Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDEAN
9 April 2015Arson/incendiarism2.2 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRED MESA

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 Red Mesa: 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Uranium, Copper, Uranium. 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
John Kee No. 4 MineVanadium, UraniumPast ProducerTyuyamunite
Red Mesa Copper PitCopper, UraniumPast ProducerMalachite
Red Mesa Copper PitUraniumUnknownSurface
Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown

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
Totacon10.5 miles18
Mexican Water Trading Post13.4 miles15
Emmanuel Mission13.5 miles18
Mexican Water14.4 miles16
Teec Nos Pos15.9 miles18
Twin Falls16.8 miles18
Tes Nez Iah18.4 miles16
Sand Springs20.7 miles15

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 Red MesaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1894746The 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 24578. 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.