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Nakaibito, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Navajo Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87320. The Survey maps it on the Tohatchi quadrangle. 355 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,457 feet above sea level.

Nakaibito within McKinley County

Population over time

3 figures

Nakaibito fell from 455 to 355 between 2000 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.

YearPeople Change
2000455
2010466+11 (+2%)
2020355-111 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Nakaibito between 1994 and 2018, burning about 14 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
10 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHIDDEN
1 August 1994Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTOHATCHI-1
14 June 2018Smoking2.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTOHATCHI
16 May 2004Debris and open burning10 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMEXICANSPG
24 December 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRT9/491 JCT
24 December 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNRT 9503

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Nakaibito: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
State Hwy Pit No. 56-12-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Hwy Pit No. 57-19-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in McKinley 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
Mexican Springs0.0 miles15
Tohatchi5.7 miles15
Twin Lakes6.4 miles13
Brimhall Nizhoni9.9 miles13
Coyote Canyon11.0 miles13
Yah-ta-hey11.6 miles13
Rock Springs12.7 miles15
Navajo13.2 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.

Wikipedia article on NakaibitoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2445228The 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 1852629. 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.