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Taylor, Arizona

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Snowflake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85937. The Survey maps it on the Taylor quadrangle. 3,995 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,761 feet above sea level.

Taylor within Navajo County

On record in Taylor

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Taylor fell from 4,112 to 3,995 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
20104,112
20203,995-117 (-3%)

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

61 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Taylor between 1994 and 2019, burning about 81 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
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
30 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTaylor Fire Departmentnot named
30 August 2001Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyCEDARCYN/E
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTaylor Fire Department177
21 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTaylor Fire Department159
2 July 1994Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
17 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictTHREE FIFTY FIVE
16 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTaylor Fire Department152
14 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePINEDALE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo 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 Taylor: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cottonwood Wash PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylor in 7 storm reports between 2006 and 2018: 5 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
August 2018Flash FloodTaylor-Flash flooding closed Gene Taylor Ranch Road at Dobson Wash.
July 2018Heavy RainTaylor-Heavy rain from a thunderstorm caused street flooding in Taylor including Paper Mill Road and West Willow Lane.
July 2018Flash FloodTaylor-Taylor Police reported that East Willow Lane was closed due to water running over the roadway.
September 2013Heavy RainTaylor-Heavy rain caused street flooding (curb to curb) in Taylor. Water was also flowing between homes and creating trenches.
July 2010Flash FloodTaylor-Several roads were flooded in and around Taylor. Part of Airport Road washed out near Highway 77.
August 2006Flash FloodTaylor-Snowflake and Taylor Police Department reported flooding in Cottonwood Wash and Silver Creek along Highway 277.
July 2006Flash FloodTaylor-Heavy rain caused flooding throughout the Snowflake and Taylor area. Ten to twelve homes were flooded. Water was knee deep in one yard. The Snowflake-Concho road was flooded and impassable. Highway 77 was also flooded.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Snowflake3.4 miles15
Schoens Crossing4.0 miles15
Shumway4.2 miles15
Robinson Trail Crossing7.3 miles16
White Mountain Lakes Estates9.1 miles19
White Mountain Lake9.4 miles19
Burton9.6 miles16
Silver Creek11.4 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 TaylorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q786920The 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 35160. 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.