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Oraibi, 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 86039. It lies near Patangvostuyqa. The Survey maps it on the Hotevilla quadrangle. It stands 5,679 feet above sea level.

Oraibi within Navajo County

On record in Oraibi

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

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.

Fires near this place

314 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Oraibi between 1994 and 2020, burning about 496 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 19 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 burning201
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural18
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Fireworks10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Other causes9
Smoking8

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 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyKYKOTSMOVI I
5 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyPEACH
5 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyFRED
4 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyLAWARENCE
29 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyYOYO FIRE
28 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresHopi AgencyRT 15
27 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencySPRING
26 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyTAYLOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oraibi in 2 storm reports in 1996: 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 1996Tornado (F0)Oraibi-no account filed
May 1996Funnel CloudOraibi-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Kykotsmovi Village0.9 miles20
Kykotsmovi1.1 miles20
Mumurva2.6 miles20
Huk Ovi2.7 miles20
Pivahn-hon-kya-pi3.3 miles20
Bacavi3.4 miles20
Aponi-vi3.9 miles20
Hotevilla3.9 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on OraibiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1130161The 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 45584. 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.

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.