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.
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
- Beesh Ligaii Bighan, West-northwest of State Highway 506 & Indian Highway 63 Junction, Teec Nos Posfederal building survey, 6 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresTeec 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 730 | |
| 2020 | 507 | -223 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Canyon De Chelly quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Pastora Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Pastora Peak NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Teec Nos Pos quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Rock Point quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
15 since 1998Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | N. CARRIZO |
| 10 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | TEEC NOS POS 1 |
| 9 July 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | SAWMILLONE |
| 27 July 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | TEEC NOS POS 1 |
| 20 July 2017 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NE CARRIZO |
| 27 June 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | 9220 RD |
| 23 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | TEEC NOS POS 2 |
| 22 June 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 4.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | TECNOSPOS1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rattlesnake No. 1 Mine | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | Carnotite | |
| Texaco #1 Nav-Z | Helium, Petroleum (Oil) | Past Producer | 1968, 1969 | |
| Texaco Z-1 Nav | Helium | Past Producer | ||
| Unidentified Clay Occurrence | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| North Mesa | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Uranium Deposit | Uranium | Unknown |
Storms near this place
2 since 2006Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Teec 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 2006 | Flash Flood | Teec Nos Pos | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding in Teec Nos Pos and people were evacuated. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Falls | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| Horse Mesa | 15.1 miles | 18 | |
| Red Mesa | 15.9 miles | 18 | |
| Emmanuel Mission | 18.4 miles | 18 | |
| Totacon | 18.7 miles | 18 | |
| Red Rock | 21.9 miles | 18 | |
| Yazzi | 24.7 miles | 18 | |
| Cove | 25.5 miles | 18 |
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 Pos | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1538036 | The 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.







