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Wepo Village, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Hopi census division. The Survey maps it on the Wepo Village quadrangle.

Wepo Village within Navajo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

208 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Wepo Village between 1994 and 2020, burning about 469 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 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 burning111
Recreation and ceremony18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Fireworks15
Arson/incendiarism15
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Other causes4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyBEESON 2
8 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresHopi AgencyPABLO
7 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyOLD PDS II
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHopi AgencyDIMP #2
27 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresHopi AgencyRED CLAY
27 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyFUNK
27 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencySAKEVA I
26 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyPIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo 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 Wepo Village: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Sheeps SpringsManganeseUnknown
Unidentified Clay OccurrenceClayOccurrence
Unidentified Clay OccurrenceClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Navajo 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
First Mesa3.9 miles19
Polacca3.9 miles19
Hano4.0 miles19
Sichomovi4.1 miles19
Walpi4.4 miles19
Sipaulovi8.7 miles19
Mishongnovi8.8 miles19
Toreva9.0 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122553564The 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 24682. 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.