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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.

Navajo Mountain within San Juan County

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 figures

Navajo 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.

YearPeople Change
2000379
2010354-25 (-7%)
2020450+96 (+27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

8 since 1993

Regional 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
Natural6
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 September 2000Natural220 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAV MTN1
4 September 1994Natural1.2 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAV. MTN.
6 August 1993Natural2.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAVAJOMTN1
5 August 1999Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAVAJOMTN2
24 July 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAVAJOMTN2
20 June 1999Natural360 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAVAJO MTN 1
10 June 2006Natural5,151 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAVAJO MOUNTAIN 1
3 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAVAJO MTN 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Rainbow City3.3 miles19
Oljato25.1 miles18
Clay Hills Crossing27.9 miles21
Halls Crossing30.5 miles18
Goulding31.2 miles19
Halchita48.4 miles21
Mexican Hat49.8 miles21
Fry Canyon54.0 miles20

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 MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1827004The 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.