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Littlefield, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the North Mohave census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86432. It stands on Beaver Dam Wash. The Survey maps it on the Littlefield quadrangle. 256 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,854 feet above sea level.

Littlefield within Mohave County

On record in Littlefield

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 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 10 records

Population over time

2 figures

Littlefield fell from 308 to 256 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
2010308
2020256-52 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

2 photographs, 1940

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.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperative waterwheel. Water is used for irrigation. Near Littlefield, Mohave County, Arizona
FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperative waterwheel. Water is used for irrigation. Near Littlefield, Mohave County, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Grand Gulch Mine, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ
Grand Gulch Mine, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Littlefield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,106 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined70
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural20
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresArizona Strip Field OfficeMM6 I15
6 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeMM6
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeM M 9
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeaver Dam / Littlefield Fire DistrictF180122
27 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeaver Dam / Littlefield Fire DistrictF180119
25 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArizona Strip Field OfficeMM5
24 September 2010Fireworksunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeRAGE
19 September 1999Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeFIGUREFOUR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave 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 Littlefield: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten. 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
Unknown ShaftTungstenUnknown

Every working recorded in Mohave County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Littlefield in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado, 1 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
July 2012Flash FloodLittlefield$100,000Flash flooding washed out several back country roads in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLittlefield$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees, some of which blocked roads and some of which fell on power lines. Trampolines were also blown into roads.
August 2024Flash FloodLittlefield$20,000Very heavy rain in the mountains above Littlefield flowed down into the community, leaving the Farm/Fleet Rd underpass under I-15 flooded with approximately 10 feet of water. Other roads in the area were also flooded, including the northbound lanes of I-15 near mile marker 9.
September 2014Flash FloodLittlefield$10,000Major flash flooding impacted the Virgin River Gorge. Interstate 15 was closed for several hours due to water and debris over the highway. Many waterfalls flowed off the higher terrain.
July 2022Flash FloodLittlefield$1,000I-15 southbound was flooded near Littlefield.
August 2022Tornado (EFU)Littlefield-Several photos from different angles showed a tornado over the open desert. The location is estimated.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLittlefield-Two stations recorded gusts to 61 mph at the same time.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLittlefield-This gust occurred at the Olaf Knolls RAWS site.
September 1995HailLittlefield-Heavy rain accompanied golf ball and pea-sized hail which lead to flooding of an underpass along Interstate 15 and also an unpaved road.
April 1994Tornado (F0)Littlefield-An observer reported the weak tornado skipping along the ground for about 10 minutes. The tornado moved through open territory with no damage reported.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLittlefield-Winds gusted to 70 mph during a severe thunderstorm.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLittlefield-no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLittlefield-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLittlefield-no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLittlefield-no account filed
October 2021Thunderstorm WindLittlefield-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLittlefield-no account filed
September 2017Thunderstorm WindLittlefield-no account filed
August 2015Thunderstorm WindLittlefield-no account filed

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
Beaver Dam0.9 miles19
Rock Crossing33.1 miles16
Mount Trumbull45.8 miles16
Colorado City51.1 miles21
Oak Grove53.9 miles16
Cane Beds55.0 miles21
South Cove55.7 miles21
Tuweep56.1 miles18

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 LittlefieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q998986The 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 7237. 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.