Shonto, Arizona

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Kayenta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86054. It stands on John Smith Wash. The Survey maps it on the Shonto quadrangle. 494 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,240 feet above sea level.

Shonto within Navajo County

Population over time

3 figures

Shonto fell from 568 to 494 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.

Year	People	Change
2000	568
2010	591	+23 (+4%)
2020	494	-97 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1883 USGS Marsh Pass quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Marsh Pass quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Marble Canyon quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Marble Canyon quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Marble Canyon quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Shonto quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Kayenta quadrangle1:100000

Storms near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shonto in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 5 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
October 2022	Funnel Cloud	Shonto	-	A funnel cloud was seen over Black Mesa from both Cow Springs and Tonalea.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Shonto	-	Flash flooding over Highway 160 was reported (Social Media and Law Enforcement) between on Highway 160 between Tonalea, Shonto, and Tsegi. Highway 98 was flooded near Shanto Wash.
August 2015	Flash Flood	Shonto	-	Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused flash flooding along Highway 160 between MP 361 and MP 379. The flooding stopped traffic.
August 2011	Flood	Shonto	-	Minor flooding was reported across Arizona State Route 160 near mile post 365 about 25 miles southwest of Kayenta.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Shonto	-	Law enforcement officials reported flash flooding over Highway 160.
September 2003	Flash Flood	Shonto	-	Several thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flooding between Shonto and Kayenta late in the afternoon. Significant flooding was reported with these storms as they moved through the area. Portions of State Route 98 were washed out near Kayenta. Vehicles were stranded and the people were evacuated.
October 2003	Flash Flood	Shonto	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Betatakin Overlook	8.4 miles	14
Tsegi	11.9 miles	13
Kayenta	22.5 miles	14
Chilchinbito	30.0 miles	13
Baby Rocks	35.8 miles	17
Hard Rocks	37.2 miles	14
Navajo Gospel Mission	39.2 miles	14
Pinon	40.6 miles	15

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 Shonto	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1818370	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 11241. 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.

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.