Smoke Signal, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Piñon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86520. It lies near Low Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Low Mountain quadrangle.

Smoke Signal 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
1990 USGS Low Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Smoke Signal between 1993 and 2019, burning about 35 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	E LOW MOUNTAIN
8 July 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	SMOKESIGNA
18 July 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	HWY 264 M.P. 351
14 July 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	LOW MTN 1
1 July 2005	Natural	8.0 acres	Hopi Agency	BORDER
1 July 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	LOW MIN 02
1 July 2001	Fireworks	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	LOW MTN 03
23 June 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	SMOKE SIGNAL 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Low Mountain	4.5 miles	19
Pinon	12.7 miles	15
Keams Canyon	14.0 miles	19
Kokopnyama	14.4 miles	19
Nesuftanga	14.7 miles	19
Jeddito	15.0 miles	19
Pink Arrow	15.2 miles	19
Chakpahu	16.5 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 11477. 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.