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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.

Navajo within Apache County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

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.

Fort Defiance Indian Hospital, Physician's Cottage Garage, Navajo Indian Reservation, Bonito Drive, Fort Defiance, Apache County, AZ
Fort Defiance Indian Hospital, Physician's Cottage Garage, Navajo Indian Reservation, Bonito Drive, Fort Defiance, Apache County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fort Defiance Indian Hospital, Nurses' Dormitory, Navajo Indian Reservation, Bonito Drive, Fort Defiance, Apache County, AZ
Fort Defiance Indian Hospital, Nurses' Dormitory, Navajo Indian Reservation, Bonito Drive, Fort Defiance, Apache County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

15 since 1993

Regional 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
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
6 July 1996Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMCCARRELL
5 July 1993Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
16 July 2004Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCRAZY
30 June 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAVAJO AZ1
3 June 1996Debris and open burning1.2 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAVAJO 1
29 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use16 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAVAJO TRAVEL
25 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePORKER
21 June 1996Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCHAMBERS2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Graywater WashSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer1955
Arizona HeliumHeliumPast Producer
Crest 2 Santa FeHeliumPast Producer
Eastern 13 Santa FeHeliumPast Producer
Eastern 31 Santa FeHeliumPast Producer
Eastern 32 Santa FeHeliumPast Producer
Eastern 35 Santa FeHeliumPast Producer
Eastern I-10 StateHeliumPast Producer
Eastern I-2 StateHeliumPast Producer
Eastern I-28 StateHeliumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2005Tornado (F0)Navajo-A trained spotter saw a tornado about two miles north of Petrified Forest National Park.
July 1998HailNavajo-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.

Every storm recorded in Apache 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
Pinta5.7 miles15
Chambers7.1 miles15
Chetco12.5 miles15
Sanders12.6 miles15
Tanner Springs13.8 miles15
Adamana18.2 miles18
Paulcell Place18.9 miles18
Wide Ruins20.5 miles15

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.