Mahtson-pi, Arizona

20 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 86030. The Survey maps it on the Hotevilla quadrangle.

Mahtson-pi within Navajo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

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 Oraibi quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1982 USGS Polacca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Hotevilla quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

169 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Mahtson-pi between 1994 and 2020, burning about 243 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 14 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	102
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Fireworks	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Other causes	3

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
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	KYKOTSMOVI I
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	PEACH
27 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	SPRING
20 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	DAY SCHOOL FIRE
20 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	DUMP I
2 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Hopi Agency	BLACK
19 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	SEPTEMBER
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	DARREN FIRE

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
Hotevilla	0.7 miles	20
Hotevilla-Bacavi	0.7 miles	20
Bacavi	1.2 miles	20
Huk Ovi	3.3 miles	20
Pivahn-hon-kya-pi	3.6 miles	20
Mumurva	3.8 miles	20
Aponi-vi	4.5 miles	20
Oraibi	4.5 miles	20

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.

Wikidata item Q122554589

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 24502. 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.