Keams Canyon, Arizona
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hopi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86034. The Survey maps it on the Keams Canyon quadrangle. 265 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,184 feet above sea level.
On record in Keams 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 1 record
- Inscription Rocklisted 1978
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Keams Canyon Quarters Building 36, 1/2 mile east of Highway 264, Keams Canyonfederal building survey, 7 photographs
- Public Health Service (PHS) Indian Hospital - Keams Canyon, Building 104, Near the old hospital, 1/2 mile east of Highway 264, Keams Canyonfederal building survey, 1 photograph
Population over time
3 figuresKeams Canyon grew from 260 to 265 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 260 | |
| 2010 | 304 | +44 (+17%) |
| 2020 | 265 | -39 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1883 USGS Tusayan quadrangle1:250000
- 1886 USGS Tusayan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Keams Canyon quadrangle1:62500
- 1982 USGS Polacca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Keams Canyon quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph,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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
94 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Keams Canyon between 1994 and 2020, burning about 282 acres in total. 15 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 37 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hopi Agency | CHICKEN COOP |
| 25 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hopi Agency | BURROW |
| 24 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hopi Agency | POOCHA |
| 14 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | JEDDITO II |
| 10 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | SW JEDDITO |
| 1 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Hopi Agency | UNIT 572 |
| 5 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Hopi Agency | DASHEE |
| 5 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Hopi Agency | POWER LINE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Keams Canyon: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koley Black No1 | Uranium, Copper | Prospect |
Storms near this place
2 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keams Canyon in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2006: 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2006 | Hail | Keams Canyon | - | One inch diameter hail fell in Keams Canyon. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Keams Canyon | - | Dime to nickel sized (3/4 to 7/8 inch diameter) hail fell in Keams Canyon. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pink Arrow | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Nesuftanga | 3.6 miles | 19 | |
| Chakpahu | 3.7 miles | 19 | |
| Jeddito | 4.1 miles | 19 | |
| Kokopnyama | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Kawaika-A | 4.9 miles | 19 | |
| Low Mountain | 9.8 miles | 19 | |
| First Mesa | 10.0 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 Keams Canyon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1026035 | 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 6629. 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.









