Halchita, Utah
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Oljato census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84531. It stands on Halgaitoh Wash. The Survey maps it on The Goosenecks quadrangle. 273 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,380 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresHalchita grew from 270 to 273 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 | 270 | |
| 2010 | 266 | -4 (-1%) |
| 2020 | 273 | +7 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 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 Abajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Abajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Abajo quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Mexican Hat quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Bluff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS The Goosenecks quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Halchita between 2006 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Moab Field Office | MONTANA |
| 13 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | BARBECUE |
| 27 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Moab Field Office | LAUNCH |
| 8 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MEXICAN HAT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Halchita: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Calcium, Oil Sands. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limestone Quarry | Calcium | Past Producer | ||
| Mexican Hat Oil Impregnated Rock | Oil Sands | Occurrence | 1882 | |
| Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Calcite | |
| Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Calcite | |
| Utah Department of Highways Pit #19049 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Utah Department of Highways Pit No. 19048 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel, Sandstone | |
| Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 19048 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 19049 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexican Hat | 2.1 miles | 21 | |
| Tselakai Dezza | 15.9 miles | 20 | |
| Little Water | 17.9 miles | 20 | |
| Goulding | 18.5 miles | 19 | |
| Bluff | 20.9 miles | 22 | |
| Oljato | 23.6 miles | 18 | |
| Clay Hills Crossing | 29.7 miles | 21 | |
| Red Lake Village | 30.3 miles | 19 |
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 Halchita | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q744079 | 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 1455895. 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.










