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.
Population over time
2 figuresTopawa 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 299 | |
| 2020 | 233 | -66 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1941 USGS Sells quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Fresnal quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Sells quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Topawa quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Sells quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Topawa quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
10 since 1995Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Papago Agency | TOPOWA01 |
| 23 June 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Papago Agency | TOPOWA |
| 2 May 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Papago Agency | KITT |
| 19 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Papago Agency | TOPAWA WASH |
| 9 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Papago Agency | LOG |
| 9 March 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Papago Agency | CACTUS |
| 9 November 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Papago Agency | BOBCAT |
| 3 November 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Papago Agency | ROUTE 19 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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.
Storms near this place
2 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Topawa | $15,000 | Roof blown off house in Topawa. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Topawa | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of two homes in Topawa. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artesa | 6.1 miles | 17 | |
| Vopolo Havoka | 6.4 miles | 17 | |
| Ali Molina | 6.5 miles | 17 | |
| Kahachi Miliuk | 6.9 miles | 16 | |
| South Komelik | 6.9 miles | 16 | |
| Chukson | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Ali Chukson | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Sells | 7.4 miles | 17 |
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 Topawa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q31882 | 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 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.








