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Second Mesa, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hopi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86043. It lies near Corn Rock. The Survey maps it on the Shungopavi quadrangle. 843 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,699 feet above sea level.

Second Mesa within Navajo County

Population over time

3 figures

Second Mesa grew from 814 to 843 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
2000814
2010962+148 (+18%)
2020843-119 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

275 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 275 fires within 5 miles of Second Mesa between 1994 and 2020, burning about 319 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 17 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 burning189
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony14
Natural13
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Fireworks8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking3
Other causes1

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
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyCOOCHYAMPTEWA
7 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreHopi AgencyBOX FIRE
3 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHopi AgencyCOOP
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyHARVEY
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyTAKALA
22 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHopi AgencyMATRESS
21 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyCHILE FIRE
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHopi AgencySTICK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo 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 Second Mesa: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Unidentified Clay OccurrenceClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Navajo 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
Toreva0.9 miles19
Mishongnovi1.0 miles19
Old Shongopavi (historical)1.1 miles20
Sipaulovi1.1 miles19
Shungopavi1.5 miles20
Walpi6.3 miles19
Sichomovi6.5 miles19
Hano6.7 miles19

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 Second MesaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1855094The 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 42897. 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.