Cibecue Creek, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Apache census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85911. It lies near Caddo Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Spotted Mountain quadrangle.

Cibecue Creek within Navajo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1886 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Chediski Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1977 USGS Spotted Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Show Low quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

182 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Cibecue Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 259,828 acres in total. 63 started naturally. 34 were 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	63
Debris and open burning	39
Arson/incendiarism	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	6
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
29 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	DAY SCHOOL
28 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	not named
23 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	RODEO GRD.
22 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	4.2 acres	Fort Apache Agency	CADDO
16 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	NORTH CBQ
14 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	NORTH ENDFIELD
9 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	WHITE SPRINGS
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	CIBECUE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Cibecue

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cibecue Creek: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cibecue Area	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working 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
Cibecue	3.7 miles	16
Grasshopper	6.9 miles	16
Pinedale	19.8 miles	17
Overgaard	20.5 miles	18
Clay Springs	21.4 miles	17
Aripine	21.9 miles	17
Linden	22.5 miles	16
Heber	23.6 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 25317. 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.