Hidden Springs Mission, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Tuba City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86045. The Survey maps it on the Willow Springs quadrangle. It stands 4,820 feet above sea level.

Hidden Springs Mission within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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 Echo Cliffs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1891 USGS Echo Cliffs quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
1955 USGS Moa Ave NW quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Marble Canyon quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Marble Canyon quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Marble Canyon quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Willow Springs quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Tuba City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hidden Springs Mission between 1994 and 2010, burning about 11 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
Smoking	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
13 August 1994	Smoking	9.4 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	NE-REDLAKE
19 July 2010	Smoking	1.8 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	HWY 89 MP 491

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Willow Springs

Every fire recorded in Coconino 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 Hidden Springs Mission: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Bentonite. 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
	Willow Springs Area	Bentonite	Occurrence	Bentonite

Every working recorded in Coconino 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
Willow Springs	0.1 miles	20
Moenave	4.6 miles	19
Tuba City	9.0 miles	19
Moenkopi	10.6 miles	19
Rare Metals	14.0 miles	19
Cameron	21.6 miles	21
Tonalea	24.6 miles	16
Coal Mine Mesa	28.9 miles	18

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 Hidden Springs Mission	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28166407	The 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 25251. 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.