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White Cone, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Indian Wells census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86034. The Survey maps it on the White Cone quadrangle. 768 people lived here at the 2020 count.

White Cone within Navajo County

Population over time

2 figures

White Cone fell from 817 to 768 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
2010817
2020768-49 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of White Cone between 1993 and 2019, burning about 171 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning6
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
5 July 1998Fireworks5.0 acresHopi AgencyHARRIETT
28 July 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementWHITE CONE 2
18 July 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresHopi AgencyLAVA DAM
17 July 1997Natural62 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementWHITE CONE
13 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreHopi AgencyWHITE CONE NHA
11 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.4 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementWHITECONE NHA
30 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementWHITE CONE1
3 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementEAST HWY 77

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo 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 White Cone: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Volcanic Materials, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
White Cone PeakPumice, Volcanic MaterialsOccurrenceTuff

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Cone in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2022Flash FloodWhite Cone-Reports of flooding on the Hopi Nation included First Mesa, Highway 264, Polacca Wash, and other locations.
August 2021HailWhite Cone-Hail the size of a quarter (1 inch in diameter) was reported in the community of White Cone.
August 2006Flash FloodWhite Cone-Water was rushing across a road in White Cone. People were standing on top of cars waiting to be rescued.
September 2003Thunderstorm WindWhite Cone-A roof was blown off a building in White Cone.
September 2003Flash FloodWhite Cone-Heavy rain and flooding washed out several roads in the White Cone area.
October 2003HailWhite Cone-3/4 inch diameter hail was reported in the town of White Cone.
October 2003Tornado (F0)White Cone-The public and Law Enforcement observed a tornado on the ground near White Cone. A spotter reported damage to a fence, windmill, and trees.

Every storm recorded in Navajo 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
Na Ah Tee8.9 miles18
Chakpahu12.2 miles19
Jeddito12.2 miles19
Kokopnyama12.4 miles19
Greasewood12.5 miles16
Kawaika-A12.6 miles19
Nesuftanga12.7 miles19
Pink Arrow12.8 miles19

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 White ConeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4958064The 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 13608. 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.