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.
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
Cameron Suspension Bridgelisted 1986
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Cameron Suspension Bridge, Spanning Little Colorado River on Alternate U.S. Route 89, Cameronfederal building survey, 1 photograph
Population over time
2 figuresCameron 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 885 | |
| 2020 | 734 | -151 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 21 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 San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000
- 1891 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1899 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Cameron quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Cameron quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Cameron North quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
2 photographs, 2018Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
12 since 1997Regional 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/incendiarism | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | BBQ |
| 4 July 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | CAMERON 1 |
| 23 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | BULLOCK |
| 20 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | S CAMERON |
| 2 July 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | LITTLECO 2 |
| 10 July 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | MEETING |
| 21 June 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | MP464HWY89 |
| 16 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 129 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | SE CAMERON |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 25 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huskon #1 Mine | Uranium, Vanadium, Copper, Molybdenum | Past Producer | Carnotite, Uraninite, Uranophane | |
| Huskon #2 Mine | Uranium, Vanadium, Molybdenum, Copper | Past Producer | Carnotite, Uraninite, Uranophane | |
| Huskon #3 Mine | Uranium, Vanadium, Molybdenum, Copper | Past Producer | Carnotite, Uraninite, Uranophane | |
| Alyce Tolino | Uranium, Molybdenum | Past Producer | ||
| Alyce Tolino Mine | Uranium, Molybdenum | Past Producer | Carnotite, Ilsemannite, Umohoite, Uraninite, Uranophane, Zippeite | |
| Jack Daniels No. 1 | Uranium, Molybdenum | Past Producer | Uraninite, Uranophane, Zippeite | |
| A & B No2 | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| A & B No3 | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Boyd Tisi 2 - Juan Horse 3 | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Casey No3 | Uranium | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Cameron | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cameron | $1,000 | A 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 2022 | Flash Flood | Cameron | - | Heavy rain fill a wash with water four feet deep in Cameron. |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Cameron | - | A storm chaser posted a video of flash flooding in the Cameron area on Twitter. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Cameron | - | The Little Colorado River gauge near Cameron (LCCA3) showed a 2.9 foot rise between 815 PM and 1100 PM MST. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Cameron | - | 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 2018 | Flash Flood | Cameron | - | 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 2012 | Hail | Cameron | - | Golf ball sized (1.75 inches in diameter) fell at the Cameron Trading Post. |
| August 2005 | Hail | Cameron | - | 3/4 inch diamiter hail was reported in Cameron. |
| August 2005 | Hail | Cameron | - | 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 1999 | Hail | Cameron | - | Coconino County law enforcement officers reported 0.75 inch diameter hail accumulating across Highway 89, three miles south of Cameron. |
| September 1995 | Hail | Cameron | - | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gray Mountain | 9.5 miles | 19 | |
| Moenave | 18.6 miles | 19 | |
| Moenkopi | 19.1 miles | 19 | |
| Tuba City | 20.1 miles | 19 | |
| Hidden Springs Mission | 21.6 miles | 20 | |
| Willow Springs | 21.7 miles | 20 | |
| Black Falls Crossing | 22.3 miles | 19 | |
| Rare Metals | 23.9 miles | 19 |
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 Cameron | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q609371 | 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 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.











