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Truxton, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Kingman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86434. The Survey maps it on the Truxton quadrangle. 104 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Truxton within Mohave County

Population over time

2 figures

Truxton fell from 134 to 104 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
2010134
2020104-30 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 2018

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Abandoned buildings in the settlement of Truxton, along old U.S. Highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona
Abandoned buildings in the settlement of Truxton, along old U.S. Highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
A distant butte near Truxton, along old U.S. Highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona
A distant butte near Truxton, along old U.S. Highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Truxton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,782 acres in total. 45 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
Natural45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
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
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTruxton Canyon AgencyTRASH PIT
21 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTruxton Canyon AgencyPOWER
20 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTruxton Canyon AgencyMUD
20 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTruxton Canyon AgencySTUMP
20 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTruxton Canyon AgencySTUMP2
6 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresTruxton Canyon AgencyBULL
25 August 1998Naturalunder an acreTruxton Canyon AgencyCONE
25 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Truxton in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2023Flash FloodTruxton$2,000Water and rocks flowed over Highway 66 near mile marker 91.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindTruxton$1,000A storm spotter in Truxton reported that strong winds from a nearby thunderstorm knocked over a fence and broke small tree limbs.
September 1997Flash FloodTruxton-A storm spotter reported that washes near Truxton were filling with water after an hour of heavy rain.
August 1997HailTruxton-Nickel-sized hail was observed in Truxton by a storm spotter.

Every storm recorded in Mohave 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
Crozier6.2 miles20
Peach Springs7.9 miles19
Valentine8.4 miles20
Hackberry11.8 miles20
Antares13.7 miles19
Walapai19.6 miles20
Berry26.9 miles20
Butler27.5 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 TruxtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6153436The 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 12742. 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.