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Steamboat Canyon, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Defiance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86505. It lies near Steamboat Rock. The Survey maps it on the Steamboat Canyon quadrangle.

Steamboat Canyon within Apache County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Steamboat Canyon between 1995 and 2018, burning about 19 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning10
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
24 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSTEAMBOAT 1
22 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-06-0678
7 July 2018Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementS STEAMBOAT CYN
21 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-05-842
20 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-05-839
2 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSTEAMBOAT
16 July 2006Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementHORNET 1
15 July 2005Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-05-813

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Steamboat Canyon: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Kaolin, Kaolin, Manganese. 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
Clay PitKaolinUnknown
SteamboatManganeseUnknown
Steamboat SchoolFire Clay (Refractory), KaolinOccurrenceKaolin

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steamboat Canyon in 5 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
August 2023Flash FloodSteamboat Canyon-Indian Route 15 was closed due to flooding at mile post 95 between Cornfields and Greasewood. Report was from Navajo Nation Road Conditions Facebook page.
August 2022Flash FloodSteamboat Canyon-The Cornfields Chapter House reported that water was overtopping Navajo Route 15 with Law Enforcement diverting traffic. Greaswood Springs Road to Klagetoh was flooded. State Route 264 was flooded near County Road 317.
July 2022Flash FloodSteamboat Canyon-Flooding was reported in rural Steamboat Canyon. Water washed out a residential road.
July 2018Heavy RainSteamboat Canyon-Arizona Department of Transportation reported flooding on State Route 264 in several locations between Steamboat (mile marker 430) and Burnside (mile marker 438). The road was closed for several hours as a preventative measure. ADOT was clearing debris off the road.
August 2018Heavy RainSteamboat Canyon-Pictures on social media showed 6 to 8 inches of water running over urban roadways and other land surrounding structures near Steamboat and State Route 264.

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
Steamboat0.3 miles16
Toyei5.6 miles16
Tsintaa Yiti Ii5.7 miles16
Cornfields11.2 miles16
Sunrise Springs11.4 miles16
Burnside12.0 miles16
Ganado16.6 miles16
Salina18.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 11804. 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.