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Old Oraibi

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Oraibi, also referred to as Old Oraibi, is a Hopi village in Navajo County, Arizona, United States, in the northeastern part of the state. Known as Orayvi by the native inhabitants, it is on Third Mesa on the Hopi Reservation near Kykotsmovi Village.”
Wikipedia article Oraibi, Arizona, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Navajo County · listed in 1966 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Hopi Indian Reservation, Oraibi, 86039
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. Hopi
National Register reference number. 66000188 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

314 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Old Oraibi between 1994 and 2020, burning about 496 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 19 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	201
Arson/incendiarism	19
Natural	18
Recreation and ceremony	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Fireworks	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Other causes	9
Smoking	8

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
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	KYKOTSMOVI I
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	PEACH
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	FRED
4 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	LAWARENCE
29 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	YOYO FIRE
28 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Hopi Agency	RT 15
27 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	SPRING
26 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	TAYLOR

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this property

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oraibi, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1996: 1 tornado, 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
May 1996	Tornado (F0)	Oraibi	-	no account filed
May 1996	Funnel Cloud	Oraibi	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Navajo County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000188 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Navajo County	All 46 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.
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.