Tsintaa Yiti Ii, 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 Eagle Crag. The Survey maps it on the Steamboat Rock quadrangle. It stands 6,348 feet above sea level.

Tsintaa Yiti Ii 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.

1886 USGS Fort Defiance quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Fort Defiance quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Steamboat Rock quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Ganado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Tsintaa Yiti Ii between 1998 and 2019, burning about 34 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	GFD-06-0678
14 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	13 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	BALAKAI MESA 2
14 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	ANDREW FIRE
9 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	GFD-05-768
2 July 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	STEAMBOAT
15 July 1998	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	BALAKAI 01
27 June 2006	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	GFD-06-0440
20 June 2019	Arson/incendiarism	2.9 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	BALAKAI MESA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Steamboat	5.5 miles	16
Steamboat Canyon	5.7 miles	16
Toyei	10.8 miles	16
Burnside	11.2 miles	16
Salina	13.9 miles	14
Cornfields	13.9 miles	16
Sunrise Springs	15.7 miles	16
Ganado	16.3 miles	16

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 Tsintaa Yiti Ii	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28534196	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 12792. 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.