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Teec Nos Pos, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sweetwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86514. The Survey maps it on the Teec Nos Pos quadrangle. 507 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,210 feet above sea level.

Teec Nos Pos within Apache County

On record in Teec Nos Pos

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Teec Nos Pos fell from 730 to 507 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010730
2020507-223 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Beesh Ligaii Bighan, West-northwest of State Highway 506 & Indian Highway 63 Junction, Teec Nos Pos, Apache County, AZ
Beesh Ligaii Bighan, West-northwest of State Highway 506 & Indian Highway 63 Junction, Teec Nos Pos, Apache County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Teec Nos Pos between 1998 and 2020, burning about 12 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
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
22 August 2004Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementN. CARRIZO
10 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTEEC NOS POS 1
9 July 1999Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSAWMILLONE
27 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTEEC NOS POS 1
20 July 2017Natural2.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNE CARRIZO
27 June 2010Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation Management9220 RD
23 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTEEC NOS POS 2
22 June 1998Misuse of fire by a minor4.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTECNOSPOS1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Teec Nos Pos: 4 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Clay, Helium, Petroleum (Oil). 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
Rattlesnake No. 1 MineUranium, VanadiumPast ProducerCarnotite
Texaco #1 Nav-ZHelium, Petroleum (Oil)Past Producer1968, 1969
Texaco Z-1 NavHeliumPast Producer
Unidentified Clay OccurrenceClayOccurrence
North MesaUraniumPast Producer
Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Teec Nos Pos in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 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
June 2024Funnel CloudTeec Nos Pos-Rotating funnel was observed for approxamatly 10 minutes with supercell thunderstorm. It almost touched the ground. Location estimated from landmarks in pictures.
October 2006Flash FloodTeec Nos Pos-Heavy rain caused flash flooding in Teec Nos Pos and people were evacuated.

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
Twin Falls4.1 miles18
Horse Mesa15.1 miles18
Red Mesa15.9 miles18
Emmanuel Mission18.4 miles18
Totacon18.7 miles18
Red Rock21.9 miles18
Yazzi24.7 miles18
Cove25.5 miles18

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 Teec Nos PosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1538036The 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 12219. 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.