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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.

Keams Canyon within Navajo County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Keams 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.

YearPeople Change
2000260
2010304+44 (+17%)
2020265-39 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

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.

Keams Canyon Quarters Building 36, 1/2 mile east of Highway 264, Keams Canyon, Navajo County, AZ
Keams Canyon Quarters Building 36, 1/2 mile east of Highway 264, Keams Canyon, Navajo County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

94 since 1994

Regional 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 burning37
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes2

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
27 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyCHICKEN COOP
25 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyBURROW
24 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreHopi AgencyPOOCHA
14 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementJEDDITO II
10 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSW JEDDITO
1 September 2009Naturalunder an acreHopi AgencyUNIT 572
5 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHopi AgencyDASHEE
5 August 2005Naturalunder an acreHopi AgencyPOWER LINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Koley Black No1Uranium, CopperProspect

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2006HailKeams Canyon-One inch diameter hail fell in Keams Canyon.
August 2003HailKeams Canyon-Dime to nickel sized (3/4 to 7/8 inch diameter) hail fell in Keams Canyon.

Every storm recorded in Navajo 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
Pink Arrow3.2 miles19
Nesuftanga3.6 miles19
Chakpahu3.7 miles19
Jeddito4.1 miles19
Kokopnyama4.3 miles19
Kawaika-A4.9 miles19
Low Mountain9.8 miles19
First Mesa10.0 miles19

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 CanyonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1026035The 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.