Grand Canyon, Arizona
39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Williams census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86023. It sits by Maricopa Point. The Survey maps it on the Grand Canyon quadrangle.
On record in Grand Canyon
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 12 of 17 shown
El Tovar HotelNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974
Grand Canyon Railroad StationNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974
Grand Canyon Village Historic DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1975
Grand Canyon Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)National Historic Landmark · listed 1995
Horace M. Albright Training Centerlisted 2013
Desert View Watchtower Historic Districtlisted 1995
El Tovar Stableslisted 1974
Grand Canyon North Rim Headquarterslisted 1982
Grandview Minelisted 1974
Hull Tank Lookout Treelisted 1992
Buckey O'Neill Cabinlisted 1975
Ranger's Dormitorylisted 1975
Every listing in Coconino County
Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 54 shown
- Bright Angel Lodge, Cabin No. 6160-6163, Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyonfederal building survey, 3 photographs
- Bright Angel Lodge, Cabin No. 6164-6167, Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyonfederal building survey, 7 photographs
- Bright Angel Lodge, Cabin No. 6168-6169, Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyonfederal building survey, 1 photograph
- Bright Angel Lodge, Cabin No. 6170-6173, Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyonfederal building survey, 3 photographs
- Bright Angel Lodge, Cabin No. 6174-6177, Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyonfederal building survey, 7 photographs
- Bright Angel Lodge, Cabin No. 6178, Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyonfederal building survey, 2 photographs
- Bright Angel Lodge, Cabin No. 6179-6182, Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyonfederal building survey, 5 photographs
- Bright Angel Lodge, Cabin No. 6183-6184, Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyonfederal building survey, 5 photographs
- Bright Angel Lodge, Cabin No. 6185-6187, Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyonfederal building survey, 7 photographs
- Bright Angel Lodge, Cabin No. 6191-6192, Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyonfederal building survey, 5 photographs
- Bright Angel Lodge, Cabin No. 6193, Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyonfederal building survey, 1 photograph
- Bright Angel Lodge, Cabin No. 6194-6195, Grand Canyon Village, South Rim, Grand Canyonfederal building survey, 7 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 39 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
- 1903 USGS Bright Angel quadrangle1:48000, 4 printings
- 1906 USGS Bright Angel quadrangle1:48000, 9 printings
- 1953 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Bright Angel quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1962 USGS Bright Angel quadrangle1:48000
- 1984 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Photographs
8 of 12 photographs shown, 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
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Every photograph of Coconino County
Fires near this place
435 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 435 fires within 5 miles of Grand Canyon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 319 acres in total. 112 started naturally. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 235 |
| Natural | 112 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Grand Canyon National Park | VILLAGE |
| 8 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | not named |
| 7 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | APACHE |
| 7 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Grand Canyon National Park | E-3 |
| 7 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Grand Canyon National Park | P |
| 6 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Canyon National Park | RIM |
| 4 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | not named |
| 30 September 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Grand Canyon National Park | COCONINO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Grand Canyon: 5 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kyanite, Uranium, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, Antimony, Lead, Nickel, Molybdenum, Manganese, Magnesite, Gold, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orphan Lode Mine | Uranium, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, Antimony, Lead, Nickel, Molybdenum, Manganese, Magnesite, Gold, Iron | Past Producer | 1891 | |
| Sillimanite Occurrence | Kyanite | Occurrence | Metamorphic | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Canyon in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 tornado. 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 1995 | Tornado | Grand Canyon | - | Pilot reported seeing a tornado.,, |
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q49352170 | 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 5213. 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.










