Nesuftanga, 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 Keams Canyon quadrangle.

Nesuftanga 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 Keams Canyon quadrangle1:62500
1982 USGS Polacca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Keams Canyon quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Nesuftanga between 1994 and 2020, burning about 283 acres in total. 12 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	26
Natural	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
27 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	CHICKEN COOP
14 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	JEDDITO II
10 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	SW JEDDITO
1 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Hopi Agency	UNIT 572
29 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	JEDDITO
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
9 July 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Hopi Agency	NAVASIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Nesuftanga: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper. 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
	Koley Black No1	Uranium, Copper	Prospect

Every working 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
Jeddito	0.5 miles	19
Kokopnyama	0.8 miles	19
Pink Arrow	0.9 miles	19
Chakpahu	2.1 miles	19
Keams Canyon	3.6 miles	19
Kawaika-A	4.9 miles	19
Low Mountain	11.1 miles	19
White Cone	12.7 miles	19

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 Q122555538

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 24533. 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.