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Tohatchi, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Navajo Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87325. The Survey maps it on the Tohatchi quadrangle. 785 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,447 feet above sea level.

Tohatchi within McKinley County

Population over time

3 figures

Tohatchi fell from 1,037 to 785 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
20001,037
2010808-229 (-22%)
2020785-23 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Tohatchi between 1996 and 2018, burning about 32 acres in total. 11 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
Natural11
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementPINON SPRINGS
14 August 1996Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCHUSKAPEAK
10 August 2005Natural1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRED WILLOW
6 July 2004Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementPOISON IVY
5 July 2002Natural4.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDEZABLUFF1
4 July 2002Natural1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDEZABLUFF
18 July 2006Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRED WILLOW 2
8 June 2006Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRED WILLOW 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Tohatchi: 7 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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
Santa Clara Pumice Pit 2PumiceUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Nielsons PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 56-12-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 57-19-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 58-66-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 78-9-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Tohatchi PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in McKinley County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tohatchi in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2016: 3 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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
September 2016Flash FloodTohatchi2 killedFather and daughter killed after entering a flooded arroyo.
September 2006Flash FloodTohatchi-no account filed
September 2003Flash FloodTohatchi-no account filed

Every storm 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 Springs5.7 miles15
Nakaibito5.7 miles15
Buffalo Springs7.7 miles13
Brimhall Nizhoni8.9 miles13
Coyote Canyon9.4 miles13
Twin Lakes10.4 miles13
Navajo14.7 miles19
Yah-ta-hey16.0 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 TohatchiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2722291The 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 902849. 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.