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.
Population over time
2 figuresCane 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 448 | |
| 2020 | 466 | +18 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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 Kaibab quadrangle1:250000, 9 printings
- 1953 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Colorado City quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Short Creek quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Short Creek NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Colorado City quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
30 since 2000Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | STATELINE |
| 18 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Arizona Strip Field Office | BED |
| 13 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | CEDAR RIDGE |
| 5 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | SPRING |
| 29 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | FINGER |
| 21 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | MM 5 HWY 389 |
| 19 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | COTTNWODPT |
| 13 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | CANE BED |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Lightning | Cane Beds | $25,000 | Lightning 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Cane Beds | $5,000 | Rocks and debris washed over many of the side roads in Colorado City, and also over low lying spots on Cane Beds Road. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cane Beds | $4,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew a large tree onto a house. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Cane Beds | $3,000 | Cane Beds Road was closed near East 3100, and Rosy Canyon Road was closed to the UT state line. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Cane Beds | $1,000 | Rosy Canyon Road was closed from Cane Beds to the Utah state line. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Cane Beds | $1,000 | Six inches of sand washed across Cane Beds Road. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Cane Beds | $500 | Hail caused damage to several vegetable gardens. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado City | 5.3 miles | 21 | |
| Moccasin | 7.6 miles | 21 | |
| Indian Moccasin | 8.7 miles | 22 | |
| Kaibab | 8.8 miles | 22 | |
| Sixmile Village | 16.8 miles | 22 | |
| Nagles Crossing | 17.6 miles | 21 | |
| Booze Crossing | 17.9 miles | 21 | |
| Rock Crossing | 28.2 miles | 16 |
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 Beds | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5574691 | 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 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.









