Upper Wheatfields, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chinle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86556. It stands on Upper Wheatfields. The Survey maps it on the Upper Wheatfields quadrangle. It stands 7,408 feet above sea level.

Upper Wheatfields within Apache County

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.

1892 USGS Canyon De Chelly quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Sonsala Butte 4 NE quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Sonsela Buttes quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Upper Wheatfields quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Canyon De Chelly quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Upper Wheatfields between 1992 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 84 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
Natural	84
Debris and open burning	13
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 September 2018	Natural	3.1 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	SW WHEATFIELDS
4 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	BUBBLING SPRING
4 September 1996	Natural	1.1 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	7600 SOUTH
3 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	WHEATFIELDS CREEK
18 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	MUSHROOMPK
12 September 2018	Natural	67 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	MUSHROOM PEAK
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	MUSHROOM02
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	MUSHROOM#1

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
Wheatfields	2.8 miles	18
Lower Wheatfields	3.2 miles	18
Sehili	6.1 miles	17
Milkwater	11.9 miles	19
White Clay	13.2 miles	18
Lukachukai	15.5 miles	17
Del Muerto	19.4 miles	17
Sawmill	22.6 miles	19

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 Upper Wheatfields	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28534019	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 13134. 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.