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Saint Johns, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the St. Johns census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85936. The Survey maps it on the Saint Johns North quadrangle. 3,417 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,686 feet above sea level.

Saint Johns within Apache County

On record in Saint Johns

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

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Saint Johns grew from 546 to 3,417 between 1880 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
1880546
20103,480
20203,417-63 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

36 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Saint Johns between 2000 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2

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 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSt. Johns Volunteer Fire Departmentnot named
30 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSt. Johns Volunteer Fire Department18095
15 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictLYMAN DITCH
23 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSt. Johns Volunteer Fire Departmentnot named
22 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSt. Johns Volunteer Fire Departmentnot named
2 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSt. Johns Volunteer Fire Departmentnot named
18 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictCORONADO
15 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeKELLEY

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 Saint Johns: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Semiprecious Gemstone, 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
Apache UraniumUraniumUnknown
St. JohnsSilica, Semiprecious GemstonePast ProducerPetrified Wood
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

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
Salado5.6 miles17
Heap Place5.9 miles17
El Tule8.9 miles17
Concho13.2 miles17
Greer Place14.6 miles18
Richville15.2 miles17
Hunt15.9 miles18
Green Spot21.9 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 Saint JohnsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79816The 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 10711. 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.