Kawaika-A, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hopi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86034. The Survey maps it on the Jeddito Spring quadrangle.

Kawaika-A within Navajo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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
1966 USGS White Cone quadrangle1:62500
1982 USGS Polacca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Jeddito Spring quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Kawaika-A between 1994 and 2020, burning about 155 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Other causes	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
24 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	POOCHA
10 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	SW JEDDITO
4 August 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Hopi Agency	SUN HILLS
13 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	SUMMIT2
1 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	SKUNK SPR
8 July 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hopi Agency	ANTELOPE
7 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	3.8 acres	Hopi Agency	BLUE BIRD CANYON
7 July 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Hopi Agency	PABLO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Chakpahu	2.8 miles	19
Pink Arrow	4.0 miles	19
Keams Canyon	4.9 miles	19
Nesuftanga	4.9 miles	19
Jeddito	4.9 miles	19
Kokopnyama	5.6 miles	19
First Mesa	10.6 miles	19
Polacca	10.6 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 42872. 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.