San Jose, Arizona
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Safford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85546. It stands on San Jose Wash. The Survey maps it on the San Jose quadrangle. 467 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,018 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSan Jose fell from 506 to 467 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 506 | |
| 2020 | 467 | -39 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Safford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Safford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
26 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of San Jose between 1992 and 2018, burning about 265 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 August 1994 | Natural | 21 acres | Gila District Office | SOLOMON |
| 21 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 2 July 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Gila District Office | SOLOMON RIVER |
| 1 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Gila District Office | MP351 |
| 9 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | SAGE |
| 23 June 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | SAN JOSE #2 |
| 14 June 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Gila District Office | BUG |
| 13 June 1999 | Natural | 24 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | SAN JOSE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of San Jose: 6 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Halite, Bromine, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Claim | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Pumice No. 2 | Pumice | Past Producer | Pumice | |
| Safford Well | Halite, Bromine | Occurrence | Brine, Halite | |
| Solomon Deposit | Diatomite | Prospect | ||
| Sol | Copper | Unknown | ||
| Sol Mine | Copper | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite | |
| Airport Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Graham County Crusher | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Jose in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | San Jose | $10,000 | A considerable area of more than 2 of rain fell in less than 1 hour east of Haekel Rd. in southeast Graham County. A section of the roadway was washed out by floodwaters near the Artesia Rd turnoff. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Jose | $500 | A large tree was downed in San Jose. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gripe | 0.7 miles | 12 | |
| Buena Vista | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Solomon | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Sanchez | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Lone Star | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Hollywood | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Safford | 6.2 miles | 14 | |
| Cactus Flat | 7.8 miles | 14 |
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 San Jose | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7414424 | The 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 10823. 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.
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.





