BlockBrimhall Nizhoni, New Mexico
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Navajo Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87310. It lies near Pumpkin Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Chuska Lake quadrangle. 286 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,148 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresBrimhall Nizhoni fell from 373 to 286 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 373 | |
| 2010 | 199 | -174 (-47%) |
| 2020 | 286 | +87 (+44%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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 Wingate quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Wingate quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Chuska Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Brimhall Nizhoni between 2000 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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 burning | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 May 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ramah Navajo Agency | DENNISON |
| 19 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | COYOTE CYN NHA |
| 19 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NR 9 MM9 |
| 20 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.9 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | FIRST LANE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coyote Canyon | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Twin Lakes | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| Tohatchi | 8.9 miles | 15 | |
| Mexican Springs | 9.9 miles | 15 | |
| Nakaibito | 9.9 miles | 15 | |
| Buffalo Springs | 11.6 miles | 13 | |
| Yah-ta-hey | 12.1 miles | 13 | |
| Heaton (historical) | 13.7 miles | 15 |
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 Brimhall Nizhoni | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2161206 | 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 1852623. 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.