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.
Population over time
2 figuresTruxton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 134 | |
| 2020 | 104 | -30 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 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.
- 1886 USGS Diamond Creek quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Diamond Creek quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1948 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Truxton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
2 photographs, 2018Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
87 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 45 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Truxton Canyon Agency | TRASH PIT |
| 21 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Truxton Canyon Agency | POWER |
| 20 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Truxton Canyon Agency | MUD |
| 20 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Truxton Canyon Agency | STUMP |
| 20 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Truxton Canyon Agency | STUMP2 |
| 6 August 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Truxton Canyon Agency | BULL |
| 25 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Truxton Canyon Agency | CONE |
| 25 August 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Truxton | $2,000 | Water and rocks flowed over Highway 66 near mile marker 91. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Truxton | $1,000 | A storm spotter in Truxton reported that strong winds from a nearby thunderstorm knocked over a fence and broke small tree limbs. |
| September 1997 | Flash Flood | Truxton | - | A storm spotter reported that washes near Truxton were filling with water after an hour of heavy rain. |
| August 1997 | Hail | Truxton | - | Nickel-sized hail was observed in Truxton by a storm spotter. |
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.
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 Truxton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6153436 | 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 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.








