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Saint Michaels, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Defiance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86511. It stands on Thsohotso Wash. The Survey maps it on the Window Rock quadrangle. 1,384 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,739 feet above sea level.

Saint Michaels within Apache County

On record in Saint Michaels

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

2 figures

Saint Michaels fell from 1,443 to 1,384 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
20101,443
20201,384-59 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Saint Michaels between 1992 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 5 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 burning40
Natural37
Fireworks8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Other causes2

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
8 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTSE BONITO
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSW EL PASO
4 September 2005Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementEL PASO-02
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementELPASO
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementJPBARKCYN
4 September 1992Other causesunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementKTNN-SHED
3 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTHSOHOTSO WASH
21 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementST MICHAELS 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint Michaels: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Fort DefianceSand 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
Window Rock3.4 miles18
Bonita Trading Post6.5 miles18
Hunters Point6.7 miles16
Fort Defiance7.0 miles18
Oak Springs11.8 miles15
Sawmill18.2 miles19
Kinlichee19.1 miles19
Pine Springs19.2 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 Saint MichaelsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2141281The 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 10723. 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.