Navajo, Arizona
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Puerco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86502. The Survey maps it on the Navajo South quadrangle.
On record in Navajo
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Painted Desert InnNational Historic Landmark · listed 1975
Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records
- Painted Desert Inn, Navajofederal building survey, 101 photographs
- Painted Desert Inn, Residence 76, Navajofederal building survey, 10 photographs
- Painted Desert Inn, Residence 77, Navajofederal building survey, 12 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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 Fort Defiance quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Fort Defiance quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Navajo South quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Sanders quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
2 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
15 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Navajo between 1993 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 3 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 | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | MCCARRELL |
| 5 July 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 16 July 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | CRAZY |
| 30 June 1995 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAVAJO AZ1 |
| 3 June 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAVAJO 1 |
| 29 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 16 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAVAJO TRAVEL |
| 25 June 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | PORKER |
| 21 June 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | CHAMBERS2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Navajo: 18 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Helium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graywater Wash | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Arizona Helium | Helium | Past Producer | ||
| Crest 2 Santa Fe | Helium | Past Producer | ||
| Eastern 13 Santa Fe | Helium | Past Producer | ||
| Eastern 31 Santa Fe | Helium | Past Producer | ||
| Eastern 32 Santa Fe | Helium | Past Producer | ||
| Eastern 35 Santa Fe | Helium | Past Producer | ||
| Eastern I-10 State | Helium | Past Producer | ||
| Eastern I-2 State | Helium | Past Producer | ||
| Eastern I-28 State | Helium | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Navajo in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2005: 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Navajo | - | A trained spotter saw a tornado about two miles north of Petrified Forest National Park. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Navajo | - | A park ranger at Petrified Forest National Park reported 1.75 inch diameter hail. They also reported 2.53 inches of rain in a two hour period that afternoon. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinta | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Chambers | 7.1 miles | 15 | |
| Chetco | 12.5 miles | 15 | |
| Sanders | 12.6 miles | 15 | |
| Tanner Springs | 13.8 miles | 15 | |
| Adamana | 18.2 miles | 18 | |
| Paulcell Place | 18.9 miles | 18 | |
| Wide Ruins | 20.5 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 8525. 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.








