In their own language the Kaibab Paiute are the Kai’vi’vits, the “Mountain Lying Down People,” and the Kaibab Plateau and the Kaibab National Forest are named for them. This map runs from Kaibab out to Sixmile Village and prints Pipe Spring National Monument, Winsor Castle, the Kaibab Paiute Tribal Administration, the Kaibab Paiute Tribal Library, the Kaibab Paiute Tribe RV Park and Campground and the Moccasin Mountains, with Blue Knolls, Cowboy Butte and Flat Tops in shaded relief.
The Kaibab Indian Reservation lies in northeastern Mohave County and northwestern Coconino County, next to the Utah line.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief of Blue Knolls, Cowboy Butte and Flat Tops comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. Pipe Spring National Monument was confirmed against the National Park Service and the National Register of Historic Places. The reservation covers 188.75 square miles and is home to the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Southern Paiutes, and it shares its ground with the Thunder Mountain Pootseev Dark-sky preserve.
The Kai’vi’vits
The Southern Paiute have lived in the Colorado River basin of southern Nevada, northern Arizona and southern Utah, and the name Paiute comes from paa, the Ute word for water, for their preference for living near it. The Kaibab Paiute were a semi-sedentary people who lived on the plants and animals of their country, and they used their permanent springs and streams to water gardens, growing corn, beans and squash with water from Kanab Creek and from the artesian springs along the Vermilion Cliffs. Southern Paiute women wove baskets from red-stemmed willow, a skill believed to have passed from mother to daughter for at least 9,000 years, and they used the baskets in nearly every part of life, for gathering, for cooking and even for building houses. The people’s holy land is Puaxant Tuvip, “power land,” and the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon are among its significant places. Their language, Colorado River Numic, is critically endangered, and it can be understood by speakers of Ute.
In the 1860s Mormon settlers took over the band’s permanent water sources, and the reservation page says this contributed to a significant decline in the Kaibab Paiute population. The reservation was set aside early in the 20th century, around the privately owned Pipe Spring ranch. Today the Kaibab Band is one of the federally recognized Southern Paiute tribes, alongside bands in Nevada and Utah and the San Juan Southern Paiute in Arizona.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: Maccasin Peak Rd, Bia Rd, Six Mile Village, Six Mile Rd, Red Hills Rd, Center St, Moccasin Wash Rd, Back Rd, Magles Rd and W Trumbull Rd.
Pipe Spring and the villages
The water of Pipe Spring is what made life possible in this dry desert, and Ancestral Puebloans and Kaibab Paiute gathered grass seeds, hunted and raised crops near the springs for at least 1,000 years. Antonio Armijo came upon the springs in 1829 while opening his route of the Old Spanish Trail, and a Latter-day Saint missionary expedition led by Jacob Hamblin gave Pipe Spring its name in 1858. Mormon ranchers brought cattle in the 1860s, and by 1872 a fort stood over the main spring. Anson Perry Winsor ran the ranch and the fort for the church, and the fort came to be called Winsor Castle. In 1923 the ranch was set aside as a national monument, a memorial to Western pioneer life. Today the monument and the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians Visitor Center and Museum tell the human history of the place, with daily tours of Winsor Castle, an orchard and garden and a half-mile trail, and the Paiute tribe runs the small campground next door.
Kaibab, a census-designated place inside the reservation, had 140 people at the 2020 census. Its townsite sits 3 miles north of State Route 389 on Pipe Spring Road, at a section of the Vermilion Cliffs and the southeast end of the Moccasin Mountains. Moccasin lies just to the north; some say it was named for a single moccasin found near the first townsite, and others say a rock shaped like a moccasin gave it the name. The reservation is served by the Fredonia-Moccasin Unified School District. Sixmile Village has its place on the sheet too, along with the tribal library and administration buildings.
This map of the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians is a good addition to an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of the area. It’s made for anyone who calls Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians home, from Kaibab out to Sixmile Village, and KNOWOL created it in 2026 to show the land as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians map.
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