2018 Map of Polacca

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First Mesa and Second Mesa dominate this Navajo County landscape, serving as the high ground for several long-established indigenous communities. The clusters of Hano, Sichomovi, and Walpi occupy the narrow southern finger of the eastern mesa, while Sipaulovi, Mishongnovi, and Toreva sit to the west. This settlement pattern follows the traditional geography of the Hopi Reservation, where villages are positioned to overlook the agricultural lands of Wepo Valley and the drainage of Wepo Wash. The modern community of Polacca sits at the mesa's base, near the Polacca Airport. Numerous named water sources, such as Spider Spring, Coyote Spring, and Toreva Spring, are marked along the steep escarpments, indicating the critical importance of these natural seeps to life in the arid high desert.