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Indian Wells, 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 86031. The Survey maps it on the Indian Wells quadrangle. 255 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 5,801 feet above sea level.

Indian Wells 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Indian Wells between 2007 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementE GRAY MESA
31 July 2020Arson/incendiarism1.9 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementINDIAN WELLS 1
3 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresHopi AgencyTSOSIE
3 June 2020Debris and open burning3.8 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRT 15 MM70
7 March 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementWHITECONE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Indian Wells: 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Volcanic Materials, Pumice, Uranium, Calcium, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bidahochi Butte Ash DepositVolcanic MaterialsOccurrence
Bidahochi Butte DepositPumice, UraniumOccurrence
Hopi Buttes AreaCalcium, UraniumOccurrence
Bidahochi Butte OccurenceUraniumOccurrence
Hoskietso ClaimUraniumOccurrence
Sun No. 14 ClaimUraniumOccurrence
Sun No14 ClaimUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indian Wells in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 tornado. 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 2025Tornado (EF0)Indian Wells-Received social media video of a distant vortex or landspout tornado. It formed along intersecting outflow boundaries. Inconclusive whether the rotating column extended to the base of the cloud. Exact duration unknown but likely very short lived. Damage unknown but likely none to minimal as it was out in open desert.

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
Bidahochi1.3 miles18
Na Ah Tee6.6 miles18
Twin Buttes9.8 miles15
Dilkon12.6 miles20
White Cone13.8 miles19
Greasewood14.5 miles16
Cedar Springs15.1 miles20
Castle Butte15.6 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 Indian WellsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5261119The 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 24470. 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.