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Tonalea, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Tuba City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86044. The Survey maps it on the Tonalea quadrangle. 451 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,650 feet above sea level.

Tonalea within Coconino County

Population over time

2 figures

Tonalea fell from 549 to 451 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
2010549
2020451-98 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Tonalea between 1994 and 2019, burning about 56 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
14 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementREDLAKE3
30 July 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementELEPHANT
24 July 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresHopi AgencySIDE WALL SPRING
2 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRDLKVALLEY
8 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.2 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRED LAKE 1
13 June 2000Fireworksunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRED LAKE A
22 May 2012Arson/incendiarism12 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTONALEA
5 April 2002Misuse of fire by a minor25 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementREDLAKE 1

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tonalea in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
July 2022FloodTonalea-The Moenkopi Wash near Tuba City flooded area farm lands. Homes in the area were threatened.
July 2021Flash FloodTonalea-Flash flooding covered the roads (including Highway 160) with water, mud, and rocks near Tonalea and Cow Springs.
August 2015Flash FloodTonalea-Water flooded the road near the junction of Highway 160 and State Route 98.

Every storm recorded in Coconino 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
Cow Springs9.7 miles14
Rare Metals15.0 miles19
Tuba City19.5 miles19
Kaibito19.8 miles19
Moenkopi20.0 miles19
Moenave23.5 miles19
Willow Springs24.6 miles20
Hidden Springs Mission24.6 miles20

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 TonaleaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1818386The 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 1853169. 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.

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.