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Steamboat, Arizona

16 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 86505. It stands on Steamboat Rock. The Survey maps it on the Steamboat Rock quadrangle. 235 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,558 feet above sea level.

Steamboat within Apache County

Population over time

2 figures

Steamboat fell from 284 to 235 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
2010284
2020235-49 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Steamboat between 1995 and 2018, burning about 19 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning10
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
24 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSTEAMBOAT 1
22 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-06-0678
7 July 2018Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementS STEAMBOAT CYN
21 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-05-842
20 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-05-839
2 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSTEAMBOAT
16 July 2006Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementHORNET 1
15 July 2005Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-05-813

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Steamboat: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Kaolin, Kaolin, Manganese. 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
Clay PitKaolinUnknown
SteamboatManganeseUnknown
Steamboat SchoolFire Clay (Refractory), KaolinOccurrenceKaolin

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
Steamboat Canyon0.3 miles16
Tsintaa Yiti Ii5.5 miles16
Toyei5.9 miles16
Cornfields11.3 miles16
Sunrise Springs11.6 miles16
Burnside11.8 miles16
Ganado16.4 miles16
Salina18.7 miles14

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 SteamboatAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1752236The 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 1853166. 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.