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Cameron, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Tuba City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86020. It lies near Tappan Spring Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Cameron North quadrangle. 734 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,203 feet above sea level.

Cameron within Coconino County

On record in Cameron

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Cameron fell from 885 to 734 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
2010885
2020734-151 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 2018

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Some of the work of Chip Thomas, a Navajo Nation physician in northeast Arizona who is better known for his artwork, scattered on sheds and water towers across the tribal lands that stretch as far as southern Utah and western New Mexico. These paintings appear near the small settlement of Cameron in Coconino County, Arizona
Some of the work of Chip Thomas, a Navajo Nation physician in northeast Arizona who is better known for his artwork, scattered on sheds and water towers across the tribal lands that stretch as far as southern Utah and western New Mexico. These paintings appear near the small settlement of Cameron in Coconino County, Arizona
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
A faded and flaking image of a man appears on an abandoned Indian jewelry or pottery stall near Cameron, Arizona
A faded and flaking image of a man appears on an abandoned Indian jewelry or pottery stall near Cameron, Arizona
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cameron between 1997 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
15 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestBBQ
4 July 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCAMERON 1
23 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBULLOCK
20 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementS CAMERON
2 July 2002Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementLITTLECO 2
10 July 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCoconino National ForestMEETING
21 June 1999Smokingunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMP464HWY89
16 June 2020Debris and open burning129 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSE CAMERON

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Cameron: 22 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Molybdenum, Molybdenum, Copper. 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
Huskon #1 MineUranium, Vanadium, Copper, MolybdenumPast ProducerCarnotite, Uraninite, Uranophane
Huskon #2 MineUranium, Vanadium, Molybdenum, CopperPast ProducerCarnotite, Uraninite, Uranophane
Huskon #3 MineUranium, Vanadium, Molybdenum, CopperPast ProducerCarnotite, Uraninite, Uranophane
Alyce TolinoUranium, MolybdenumPast Producer
Alyce Tolino MineUranium, MolybdenumPast ProducerCarnotite, Ilsemannite, Umohoite, Uraninite, Uranophane, Zippeite
Jack Daniels No. 1Uranium, MolybdenumPast ProducerUraninite, Uranophane, Zippeite
A & B No2UraniumPast Producer
A & B No3UraniumPast Producer
Boyd Tisi 2 - Juan Horse 3UraniumPast Producer
Casey No3UraniumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cameron in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 5 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2005Tornado (F0)Cameron$10,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindCameron$1,000A photo of a broken 4 inch diameter tree branch was at the Cameron Trading post was posted on-line. Storm lasted from 530 PM to 7 PM.
July 2022Flash FloodCameron-Heavy rain fill a wash with water four feet deep in Cameron.
July 2022Flash FloodCameron-A storm chaser posted a video of flash flooding in the Cameron area on Twitter.
August 2021Flash FloodCameron-The Little Colorado River gauge near Cameron (LCCA3) showed a 2.9 foot rise between 815 PM and 1100 PM MST.
August 2019Flash FloodCameron-Training thunderstorms produce at least 4 inches of rain over desert and rocky terrain. This caused flash flooding in Tappan Wash up to 20 feet deep in the narrow gouge under Highway 64. A river gauge on the Little Colorado River downstream measured a 5 foot rise 15 minutes (730 to 745 PM). This was an increase of 2,911 CFS. A total rise of 5.7 feet was measured in an hour and 45 minutes (a total rise of 3213 CFS rise).
October 2018Flash FloodCameron-Heavy rain and flowing water through a box culvert under US Highway 89 caused the roadway to collapse. The collapsed road caused a fatal vehicular collision. A 15 mile section of Highway 89 (from Cameron to the Highway 160 Junction) was closed while the road could be repaired.
July 2012HailCameron-Golf ball sized (1.75 inches in diameter) fell at the Cameron Trading Post.
August 2005HailCameron-3/4 inch diamiter hail was reported in Cameron.
August 2005HailCameron-Dime sized (3/4 inch diameter) hail was reported by a Department of Public Safety officer about 10 miles west of Cameron along State Route 64.
August 1999HailCameron-Coconino County law enforcement officers reported 0.75 inch diameter hail accumulating across Highway 89, three miles south of Cameron.
September 1995HailCameron-A thunderstorm piled up hail two inches deep on State Highway 64 creating icy road conditions and caused several collisions. Three-quarter inch hail up to two inches deep was reported in the same area.

Every storm recorded in Coconino 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
Gray Mountain9.5 miles19
Moenave18.6 miles19
Moenkopi19.1 miles19
Tuba City20.1 miles19
Hidden Springs Mission21.6 miles20
Willow Springs21.7 miles20
Black Falls Crossing22.3 miles19
Rare Metals23.9 miles19

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 CameronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q609371The 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 2396. 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.