Beaver Dam, Arizona
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the North Mohave census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86432. It stands on Beaver Dam Wash. The Survey maps it on the Littlefield quadrangle. 1,552 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresBeaver Dam fell from 1,962 to 1,552 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,962 | |
| 2020 | 1,552 | -410 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Mt. Trumbull quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Mt. Trumbull quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Littlefield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Littlefield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Littlefield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
142 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Dam between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,746 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 70 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 27 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Arizona Strip Field Office | MM6 I15 |
| 6 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | MM6 |
| 5 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | M M 9 |
| 30 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Beaver Dam / Littlefield Fire District | F180122 |
| 27 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Beaver Dam / Littlefield Fire District | F180119 |
| 25 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Arizona Strip Field Office | MM5 |
| 24 September 2010 | Fireworks | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | RAGE |
| 18 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | SAND HOLLOW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beaver Dam: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Shaft | Tungsten | Unknown |
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver Dam in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2010 | Flood | Beaver Dam | $4,000,000 | The Beaver Dam Wash flooded the community of Beaver Dam. Six homes were washed away, 12 more were damaged, two mobile homes and a garage were destroyed, and a 300-400 foot stretch of Clark Gable Drive was washed out. The water flowed into the Virgin River, which then flooded Littlefield, damaging a sewer lift station. |
| May 2025 | Flash Flood | Beaver Dam | $1,000 | Old Highway 91 was flooded just south of the AZ/UT state line. |
| September 2023 | Flash Flood | Beaver Dam | $1,000 | Highway 91 was closed from mile marker 3 to mile marker 7. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver Dam | - | A thunderstorm outflow was enhanced by a fast moving cold front to produce a recorded wind gust to 71 mph. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Littlefield | 0.9 miles | 19 | |
| Rock Crossing | 33.5 miles | 16 | |
| Mount Trumbull | 46.6 miles | 16 | |
| Colorado City | 51.1 miles | 21 | |
| Oak Grove | 54.7 miles | 16 | |
| Cane Beds | 55.1 miles | 21 | |
| South Cove | 56.5 miles | 21 | |
| Tuweep | 56.8 miles | 18 |
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 Beaver Dam | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4878053 | The 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 45628. 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.
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.








