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Pinta, 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 Pinta quadrangle. It stands 5,505 feet above sea level.

Pinta within Apache County

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.

Fires near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Pinta between 1994 and 2018, burning about 50 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
13 July 1994Smoking1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
25 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePORKER
14 June 1996Natural31 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementPINTA 1
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.3 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation Management0365-NAA
11 April 1996Smoking5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 March 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePetrified Forest National ParkGRASS FIRE
15 March 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeI-40 MM323
1 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePetrified Forest National ParkGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Pinta: 9 past producers, 2 unknowns. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Eastern I-10 StateHeliumPast Producer
Eastern I-2 StateHeliumPast Producer
Eastern I-28 StateHeliumPast Producer
Kerr Mcgee 1 FeeHeliumPast Producer
Kerr Mcgee 1 StateHeliumPast Producer
Kerr Mcgee 2 FeeHeliumPast Producer
Kerr Mcgee 2 StateHeliumPast Producer
Kerr Mcgee 3a StateHeliumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinta in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
July 2008Funnel CloudPinta-A funnel cloud was seen northeast of the Petrified Forest National Park.

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
Navajo5.7 miles15
Adamana12.5 miles18
Chambers12.8 miles15
Paulcell Place13.3 miles18
Tanner Springs14.5 miles15
Chetco18.2 miles15
Sanders18.3 miles15
Potter Place18.8 miles16

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 Q28912609The 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 24563. 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.