Fort Thomas, Arizona
| Fort Thomas, Arizona | |
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| Census-designated place | |
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| Coordinates: 33°02′13″N 109°57′55″W / 33.03694°N 109.96528°WCoordinates: 33°02′13″N 109°57′55″W / 33.03694°N 109.96528°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| County | Graham |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8.672 sq mi (22.46 km2) |
| • Land | 8.670 sq mi (22.46 km2) |
| • Water | 0.002 sq mi (0.005 km2) |
| Elevation | 2,713 ft (827 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 374 |
| • Density | 43/sq mi (17/km2) |
| Time zone | Mountain (MST) (UTC-7) |
| ZIP code | 85536 |
| Area code(s) | 928 |
| GNIS feature ID | 4754 |
Fort Thomas (Western Apache: Gowąh Golgai Gohoshé) is a census-designated place in Graham County, Arizona, United States. Its population was 374 as of the 2010 census. The community has an elementary school and a high school. It is part of the Safford Micropolitan Statistical Area. Fort Thomas has a ZIP code of 85536.
Fort Thomas is at 33°2′14″N 109°57′58″W / 33.03722°N 109.96611°W, at an elevation of 2822 feet above sea level.
Fort Thomas has a borderline semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh/BSk) bordering upon an arid climate (BWh/BWk) characterised by very hot summers and winters with mild days and cold nights. Although frosts are frequent during the winter, occurring on an average of 60.2 nights during December, January and February, snow is exceptionally rare with a median of zero and a mean of 0.2 inches (0.005 m). Daily temperatures are comfortable during winter – only 5.6 days do not top 50 °F or 10 °C – but heat up rapidly as summer approaches, with half of all days by May topping 90 °F or 32.2 °C and 35.5 days topping 100 °F or 37.8 °C during an average entire year.
Rainfall is rare, with monsoonal storms much less frequent than higher up or further south. Easily the wettest month since records began in 1966 has been January 1993 when 5.27 inches or 133.9 millimetres fell – the only other totals above 4.00 inches (101.6 mm) over a single month being 4.40 inches or 111.8 millimetres in October 1983 and 4.22 inches or 107.2 millimetres in October 2000. The wettest calendar year has been 1978 with 16.50 inches or 419.1 millimetres and the driest 1989 with 3.93 inches (99.8 mm).
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