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Sanders, Arizona

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Puerco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86512. The Survey maps it on the Sanders quadrangle. 575 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,865 feet above sea level.

Sanders within Apache County

On record in Sanders

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Sanders fell from 630 to 575 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
2010630
2020575-55 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Sanders between 1992 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 13 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 burning62
Natural26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks6
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRAIL
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSALT
18 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCHAMBERS7
15 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCEDAR POINT
15 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBUD
14 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementW.QUERINO1
13 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementVHS HILLS
13 September 1995Smokingunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBURNTWATER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Sanders: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Houck Silica Operation MineSilicaProducer
Houck Silica SandSilicaProducerSedimentary
Big SixClayPast Producer
Bleaching Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
ChambersClayPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Big Six MineBentonitePast ProducerBentonite
Bleaching Clay DepositBentoniteOccurrenceBentonite

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sanders in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2021: 4 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
June 2021Tornado (EF0)Sanders-A land spout tornado was reported by the public on Highway 191. The land spout formed along a gust front produced by a thunderstorm.
August 2014Funnel CloudSanders-A brief funnel cloud was seen about 4 miles north of Sanders.
July 2007Flash FloodSanders-Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused flash flooding along Highway 191 betwee Sanders and St Johns.
August 2007Flash FloodSanders-Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused flash flooding across Highway 191 between mile post 346 to 347 about 20 miles south-southeast of Sanders.
October 2006Flash FloodSanders-The Apache County Sheriff Department reported flash flooding in North Sanders.
August 2005Flash FloodSanders-Heavy rain caused flooding along I-40 from Sanders to Lupton (from mile post 342 to the New Mexico state line). Both east and west bound lanes were closed. A bridge on I-40 was under water near Lupton. Flooding was also reported northward to Window Rock where the bridge over Narrow Wash washed out and stranded 15 to 20 people. Water also flowed over a bridge near the Window Rock Airport.

Every storm 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
Chetco0.0 miles15
Chambers5.6 miles15
Houck8.1 miles15
Allentown10.7 miles15
Navajo12.6 miles15
Pine Springs13.3 miles15
Wide Ruins16.5 miles15
Lupton17.6 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 SandersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q540652The 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 10911. 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.