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Navajo, New Mexico

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Navajo Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87328. It stands on Zilditloi Wash. The Survey maps it on the Buell Park quadrangle. 1,942 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,113 feet above sea level.

Navajo within McKinley County

Population over time

3 figures

Navajo fell from 2,097 to 1,942 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.

YearPeople Change
20002,097
20101,645-452 (-22%)
20201,942+297 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Navajo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 155 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 6 were 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
Natural34
Debris and open burning33
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Fireworks8
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAVAJO PINE 2
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTWIN SNAGS
19 September 2000Natural1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementPINERIDGE
12 September 2009Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementOLD RED LAKE RD
12 September 1999Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation Management9220 N
1 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAVAJO PINE 1
9 August 1994Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTWINBUTTE1
6 August 1994Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementFUZZY FIRE

Every fire recorded in McKinley 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 Navajo: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Semiprecious Gemstone, Olivine, Garnet, Gemstone. 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
Buell ParkSemiprecious GemstoneUnknown
Buell ParkOlivine, Garnet, GemstoneProducerPeridot, Pyrope

Every working recorded in McKinley 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
Mexican Springs13.2 miles15
Nakaibito13.2 miles15
Tohatchi14.7 miles15
Tse Bonito16.8 miles18
Twin Lakes19.0 miles13
Buffalo Springs20.3 miles13
Brimhall Nizhoni22.6 miles13
Rock Springs22.8 miles15

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 NavajoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1490587The 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 933101. 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.