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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.

Halchita within San Juan County

Population over time

3 figures

Halchita 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.

YearPeople Change
2000270
2010266-4 (-1%)
2020273+7 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

4 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeMONTANA
13 July 2006Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeBARBECUE
27 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeLAUNCH
8 April 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMEXICAN HAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Limestone QuarryCalciumPast Producer
Mexican Hat Oil Impregnated RockOil SandsOccurrence1882
Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerCalcite
Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerCalcite
Utah Department of Highways Pit #19049Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Utah Department of Highways Pit No. 19048Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sandstone
Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 19048Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 19049Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in San Juan 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 Hat2.1 miles21
Tselakai Dezza15.9 miles20
Little Water17.9 miles20
Goulding18.5 miles19
Bluff20.9 miles22
Oljato23.6 miles18
Clay Hills Crossing29.7 miles21
Red Lake Village30.3 miles19

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 HalchitaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q744079The 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.