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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.

Beaver Dam within Mohave County

Population over time

2 figures

Beaver 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,962
20201,552-410 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

142 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined70
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural15
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresArizona Strip Field OfficeMM6 I15
6 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeMM6
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeM M 9
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeaver Dam / Littlefield Fire DistrictF180122
27 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeaver Dam / Littlefield Fire DistrictF180119
25 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArizona Strip Field OfficeMM5
24 September 2010Fireworksunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeRAGE
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeSAND HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown ShaftTungstenUnknown

Every working recorded in Mohave County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2010FloodBeaver Dam$4,000,000The 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 2025Flash FloodBeaver Dam$1,000Old Highway 91 was flooded just south of the AZ/UT state line.
September 2023Flash FloodBeaver Dam$1,000Highway 91 was closed from mile marker 3 to mile marker 7.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBeaver Dam-A thunderstorm outflow was enhanced by a fast moving cold front to produce a recorded wind gust to 71 mph.

Every storm recorded in Mohave 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
Littlefield0.9 miles19
Rock Crossing33.5 miles16
Mount Trumbull46.6 miles16
Colorado City51.1 miles21
Oak Grove54.7 miles16
Cane Beds55.1 miles21
South Cove56.5 miles21
Tuweep56.8 miles18

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 DamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4878053The 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.