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Topawa, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85639. The Survey maps it on the Topawa quadrangle. 233 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,467 feet above sea level.

Topawa within Pima County

Population over time

2 figures

Topawa fell from 299 to 233 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
2010299
2020233-66 (-22%)

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

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Topawa between 1995 and 2009, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
6 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyTOPOWA01
23 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyTOPOWA
2 May 2004Naturalunder an acrePapago AgencyKITT
19 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyTOPAWA WASH
9 March 2005Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyLOG
9 March 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePapago AgencyCACTUS
9 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyBOBCAT
3 November 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePapago AgencyROUTE 19

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Topawa: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Topawa in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindTopawa$15,000Roof blown off house in Topawa.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindTopawa$10,000Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of two homes in Topawa.

Every storm recorded in Pima 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
Artesa6.1 miles17
Vopolo Havoka6.4 miles17
Ali Molina6.5 miles17
Kahachi Miliuk6.9 miles16
South Komelik6.9 miles16
Chukson7.0 miles17
Ali Chukson7.0 miles17
Sells7.4 miles17

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 TopawaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q31882The 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 12621. 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.