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Wahak Hotrontk, Arizona

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. It stands on Hickiwan Wash. The Survey maps it on the Wahak Hotrontk quadrangle. 88 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,939 feet above sea level.

Wahak Hotrontk within Pima County

Population over time

2 figures

Wahak Hotrontk fell from 114 to 88 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
2010114
202088-26 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Wahak Hotrontk between 1994 and 2014, burning about 6 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Firearms and explosives use2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyDISTRICT
1 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePapago AgencyHWY8606
15 July 2006Naturalunder an acrePapago AgencyBUZZARD FIRE
25 June 1997Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresPapago AgencySAN SIMON
7 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyHWY86-74
4 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyBENNETT
9 April 2005Naturalunder an acrePapago AgencyDAMS
4 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePapago AgencyBLANCA

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 Wahak Hotrontk: 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
North Tracys WellGeothermalOccurrence
San Simon WellGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wahak Hotrontk in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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 2023Thunderstorm WindWahak Hotrontk$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed power poles in Pisinimo and Hickiwan Districts on the Tohono O'odham Nation.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWahak Hotrontk$8,000Thunderstorm winds downed 3 power poles in the San Simon, Kuakatch and Charco 27 areas.
August 2025HailWahak Hotrontk-Spotter reported penny to nickel sized hail.
August 2013Flash FloodWahak Hotrontk-Heavy rain of 2 to 3 inches fell along the Hickiwan Wash between 2 and 4 pm and downstream along the San Simon Wash between the between 4 and 6 pm. The San Simon Wash flowed rapidly across Highway 86, and Indian Routes 28 and 21 downstream, causing all these roads to be closed.

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
Stotonyak1.9 miles14
Ahan Owuch3.0 miles14
Komak Wuacho3.4 miles14
Peach Pu8.8 miles14
Pisinemo10.3 miles14
Pisinimo10.5 miles14
Oit Ihuk11.2 miles14
Vaya Chin11.5 miles13

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 Wahak HotrontkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28403The 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 13276. 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.