Castle Butte, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Indian Wells census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86047. It lies near Chezhin Chotah Butte. The Survey maps it on the French Butte quadrangle.

Castle Butte within Navajo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1883 USGS Tusayan quadrangle1:250000
1886 USGS Tusayan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1947 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS French Butte quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Winslow quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Castle Butte between 2018 and 2020, burning about 201 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2

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
2 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	CHIMNEY BUTTE 1
3 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	DILKON 4
10 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	3.9 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	HWY 87 MP371
20 May 2018	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	DILKON 3
14 May 2018	Debris and open burning	167 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	DILKON 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Dilkon

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castle Butte in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2022	Flash Flood	Castle Butte	-	Flash flooding was reported about 10 miles north of Joseph City at the intersection of Blairs Spring Wash and North Porter Road. The dirt road was washed out by the flooding and a vehicle got stuck.
September 2021	Flash Flood	Castle Butte	-	Water was flowing over a 40 foot section of Highway 87 at Mile Post 343 near Coyote Wash.
July 2020	Funnel Cloud	Castle Butte	-	Multiple people reported seeing a funnel cloud near the community of Indian Wells.
October 2015	Flash Flood	Castle Butte	-	Water was up to two feet deep on Castle Butte Road east of Mile Post 8 off Navajo Route 60.
August 2015	Flash Flood	Castle Butte	-	Flash flooding washed out the majority of the dirt roads in the Dilkon, Tees Toh, Indian Wells, to White Cone area.

Every storm recorded in Navajo 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dilkon	5.8 miles	20
Cedar Springs	10.2 miles	20
Tees Toh	13.8 miles	18
Seba Dalkai	14.4 miles	18
Indian Wells	15.6 miles	18
Na Ah Tee	16.8 miles	18
Bidahochi	16.9 miles	18
Manila	23.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24346. 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.

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.