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Cane Beds, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the North Mohave census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86022. It lies near Scott Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Colorado City quadrangle. 466 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,046 feet above sea level.

Cane Beds within Mohave County

Population over time

2 figures

Cane Beds grew from 448 to 466 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
2010448
2020466+18 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

30 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Cane Beds between 2000 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 2 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
Natural18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 September 2002Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeSTATELINE
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresArizona Strip Field OfficeBED
13 September 2015Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeCEDAR RIDGE
5 August 2004Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeSPRING
29 August 2011Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeFINGER
21 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeMM 5 HWY 389
19 August 2005Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeCOTTNWODPT
13 August 2017Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeCANE BED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Storms near this place

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cane Beds in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
July 2017LightningCane Beds$25,000Lightning struck and set fire to two power poles, starting a fire that burned 1.5 acres and knocking out power to two communities for 6.5 hours.
August 2014Flash FloodCane Beds$5,000Rocks and debris washed over many of the side roads in Colorado City, and also over low lying spots on Cane Beds Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCane Beds$4,000Thunderstorm winds blew a large tree onto a house.
August 2022Flash FloodCane Beds$3,000Cane Beds Road was closed near East 3100, and Rosy Canyon Road was closed to the UT state line.
August 2018Flash FloodCane Beds$1,000Rosy Canyon Road was closed from Cane Beds to the Utah state line.
July 2013Flash FloodCane Beds$1,000Six inches of sand washed across Cane Beds Road.
July 2015HailCane Beds$500Hail caused damage to several vegetable gardens.

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
Colorado City5.3 miles21
Moccasin7.6 miles21
Indian Moccasin8.7 miles22
Kaibab8.8 miles22
Sixmile Village16.8 miles22
Nagles Crossing17.6 miles21
Booze Crossing17.9 miles21
Rock Crossing28.2 miles16

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 Cane BedsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5574691The 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 24343. 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.

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.