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Woodruff, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Snowflake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86025. It stands on Woodruff Butte. The Survey maps it on the Woodruff quadrangle. 154 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,144 feet above sea level.

Woodruff within Navajo County

On record in Woodruff

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Woodruff fell from 191 to 154 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
2010191
2020154-37 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Woodruff between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
10 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFort Apache AgencyNEW F GRDS
19 August 2020Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictHUNT VALLEY
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJoseph City Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
15 July 1997Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyBIG MTN.
29 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeWOODRUFF
29 June 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFort Apache AgencySO.WHR.
6 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeLUCKY
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTaylor Fire Department96

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Woodruff: 1 past producer, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
Dutton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
WoodruffGypsum-AnhydritePast ProducerGypsum
Woodruff GypsumGypsum-AnhydriteProspect

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodruff in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 2 heavy rain, 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Flash FloodWoodruff-A USGS stream gauge on the Little Colorado River near Woodruff reported a 6.3 foot rise in one hour from near nearby thunderstorms producing heavy rainfall.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindWoodruff-The ADOT site located on SR-77 at 14 mile hill (AZT12) measured a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2023FloodWoodruff-A USGS stream gage on the Little Colorado River at Woodruff showed a rise of 6.9 feet starting at 120 PM on August 9. The flow returned to a normal level around 1000 PM on August 10. The flood started at Hoolbrook at 600 PM August and rose around 4.5 feet by 200 AM on August 10. This flood reached the Colorado River at 500 PM on August 10 and the river level rose 1.7 feet.
August 2023Heavy RainWoodruff-Widespread standing water was seen next to State Route 77. The highway was not flooded.
July 2022Flash FloodWoodruff-The Little Colorado River rose over 8 feet from 300 to 500 PM MST (Woodruff guage WDRA3).
July 2022Flash FloodWoodruff-Heavy rain caused flooding over State Route 77 and Feedmill Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWoodruff-The Arizona Department of Transportation wind sensor on State Route 77 (mile 14) reported a peak wind gust of 59 MPH.
September 2014FloodWoodruff-The Little Colorado River was running very high. The river rose to about 7 feet below the top railing of the bridge.
September 2010Heavy RainWoodruff-Heavy rain in and around Woodruff caused area washed to run high. The main road through Woodruff was closed due to running water.
August 2007Flash FloodWoodruff-Flash flooding washed out County road 9332. A 36 inch culvert was washed downstream and a 4 to 5 foot deep gully was scoured in the roadbed.

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
Headquarters9.7 miles18
Ubank Place10.2 miles18
Clearview Heights10.3 miles18
Holbrook10.3 miles18
Rosedale Heights10.6 miles18
Arntz10.7 miles17
Sierra Plaza Subdivision11.0 miles18
Lisitzky Subdivision11.3 miles18

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 WoodruffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5264673The 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 13993. 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.