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Indian Pine, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Fort Apache census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85935. It lies near Cooley Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Indian Pine quadrangle. It stands 7,175 feet above sea level.

Indian Pine within Navajo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

391 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 391 fires within 5 miles of Indian Pine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 391 acres in total. 132 started naturally. 40 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
Natural132
Missing data/not specified/undetermined68
Arson/incendiarism40
Recreation and ceremony39
Debris and open burning31
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Smoking21
Equipment and vehicle use19
Other causes9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River AgencySATURDAY
8 September 2009Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestWALNUT
5 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyLARGO MTN
4 September 2007Natural1.5 acresFort Apache AgencyB-37
4 September 2007Natural1.5 acresFort Apache AgencyCOOLEY MTN.
26 September 1995Smoking6.5 acresFort Apache AgencyCOOLEY
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Apache AgencySMOKE SHOP
20 September 2000Smokingunder an acreFort Apache AgencyCOOLEY MTN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Indian Pine: 8 unknowns, 7 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice. 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
Cinder OccurrenceVolcanic MaterialsOccurrence
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Indian Pine No. 1 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indian Pine in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2021HailIndian Pine-One and a half inch diameter hail fell just west of McNary.
August 2017HailIndian Pine-A thunderstorm produced quarter sized (1 inch in diameter) hail with very heavy rain. Some stones were larger.
July 2017Heavy RainIndian Pine-A thunderstorm produced 1.67 inches of rain in one hour just north of McNary.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pinetop3.6 miles21
Pinetop-Lakeside5.2 miles21
Lakeside6.3 miles21
Lake of the Woods7.3 miles21
Sponseller8.1 miles21
Bell13.3 miles19
Show Low13.7 miles16
Whiteriver17.1 miles11

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 Indian PineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28222318The 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 30351. 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.