Navajo City, New Mexico

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the West Rio Arriba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87412. It lies near Manzanares Peak. The Survey maps it on the Navajo Dam quadrangle.

Navajo City within Rio Arriba County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1889 USGS Largo quadrangle1:250000
1895 USGS Largo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Navajo Dam quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Pine River quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Navajo Dam quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Navajo Reservoir quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

172 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Navajo City between 1992 and 2019, burning about 309 acres in total. 155 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
Natural	155
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	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
4 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	SMITHPASS
3 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	NAVAJO CITY
25 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	DRIP TANK
21 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	PASS
20 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	BALTZER
17 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	WAGNER
14 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Albuquerque District Office	NAVAJO
12 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Farmington Field Office	HOLLIS

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba 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
Rosa (historical)	19.3 miles	17
Vaqueros (historical)	21.3 miles	16
Carracas	25.5 miles	16
Pounds (historical)	27.8 miles	13
Navajo	31.6 miles	13
Dulce	34.3 miles	14
Ojito	35.2 miles	14
Lybrook	35.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 938723. 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.