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Adamana, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Puerco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86028. The Survey maps it on the Adamana quadrangle. It stands 5,305 feet above sea level.

Adamana within Apache County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Adamana between 1995 and 2019, burning about 16 acres in total. None 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/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
10 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCARRIZO
1 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresPuerco Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
27 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePuerco Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
23 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictADAMANA
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictWASHBOARD
8 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresPetrified Forest National ParkNINEMILE
7 March 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePetrified Forest National ParkTRUCK FIRE
25 January 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePetrified Forest National ParkTIRE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Adamana: 3 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Helium, Halite, Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Kern County Land Company Drill HoleHelium, Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, PotassiumOccurrence1964
Unidentified Halite OccurrenceHaliteOccurrenceHalite
Franklin,Aston & Fair C-1 NmaHeliumPast Producer
Curry Jones ProspectUraniumProspect
Uranium DepositUraniumOccurrence
Uranium DepositsUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adamana in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010Thunderstorm WindAdamana-Damaging thunderstorm winds hit the Petrified Forest National Park. Stop signs were blown down and small trees were snapped. A wind sensor measured a peak wind gust of 107 MPH.
January 2008Heavy RainAdamana-Heavy rain and melting snow caused may of the roads across Navajo Nation to become impassible. A state of emergency was declared from January 29 to March 31st. The Navajo Nation Council allocated $25,000 emergency funds for each of the Chapters.

Every storm recorded in Apache 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
Paulcell Place1.0 miles18
Pinta12.5 miles15
Potter Place14.4 miles16
Milky Ranch14.6 miles16
Navajo18.2 miles15
Tanner Springs22.7 miles15
Chambers25.3 miles15
Hunt27.3 miles18

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 AdamanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4680098The 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 479. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.