Navajo Mountain, Utah
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Oljato census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86044. The Survey maps it on the Navajo Begay quadrangle. 450 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,024 feet above sea level.
On record in Navajo Mountain
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Population over time
3 figuresNavajo Mountain grew from 379 to 450 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 | 379 | |
| 2010 | 354 | -25 (-7%) |
| 2020 | 450 | +96 (+27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 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 Henry Mountains quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Henry Mountains quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Navajo Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Escalante quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Escalante quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Navajo Mountain quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Navajo Begay quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Navajo Mountain between 1993 and 2009, burning about 5,735 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2000 | Natural | 220 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAV MTN1 |
| 4 September 1994 | Natural | 1.2 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAV. MTN. |
| 6 August 1993 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAVAJOMTN1 |
| 5 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAVAJOMTN2 |
| 24 July 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAVAJOMTN2 |
| 20 June 1999 | Natural | 360 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAVAJO MTN 1 |
| 10 June 2006 | Natural | 5,151 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAVAJO MOUNTAIN 1 |
| 3 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAVAJO MTN 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow City | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| Oljato | 25.1 miles | 18 | |
| Clay Hills Crossing | 27.9 miles | 21 | |
| Halls Crossing | 30.5 miles | 18 | |
| Goulding | 31.2 miles | 19 | |
| Halchita | 48.4 miles | 21 | |
| Mexican Hat | 49.8 miles | 21 | |
| Fry Canyon | 54.0 miles | 20 |
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 Navajo Mountain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1827004 | 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 1455975. 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.






