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Marble Canyon, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kaibab Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86036. It lies near Five Mile Point. The Survey maps it on the Navajo Bridge quadrangle. It stands 3,573 feet above sea level.

Marble Canyon within Coconino County

On record in Marble 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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 25 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.

Fires near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Marble Canyon between 1993 and 2017, burning about 559 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkBRIDGE
29 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeTRAILER
15 July 2005Natural554 acresArizona Strip Field OfficeMARBLE CYN
4 June 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGlen Canyon National Recreation AreaLEES FERRY CAMPGROUND
11 June 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGlen Canyon National Recreation AreaLEES FERRY
29 May 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkKEATING
28 May 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkTENMILE
24 April 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkJESSOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Marble Canyon: 8 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Bentonite, Quartz, Calcium, Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite. 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
El Pequito MineUranium, CopperPast ProducerVein
Lees FerrySilica, Semiprecious GemstoneProducerReplacement
Lees Ferry GoldGoldOccurrence
Lees Ferry MercuryMercuryOccurrence
Maggie-Baker RileySemiprecious Gemstone, Uranium, VanadiumPast Producer
Sam ClaimsUranium, Calcium, Copper, Sulfur-PyriteOccurrence
Snafu ClaimsQuartz, UraniumProspect
Echo Cliffs ClayBentoniteOccurrence
Foot of Echo Cliffs Area BentoniteBentoniteOccurrenceBentonite
El PequitoUraniumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

23 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marble Canyon in 23 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 23 flash flood. 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
August 2025Flash FloodMarble Canyon-A USGS stream gauge at Lees Ferry (PLFA3) measured a 1.2 foot rise on the Paria River. Water would likely have been higher upstream closer to the heavier rainfall. Time estimated by radar.
July 2025Flash FloodMarble Canyon-A USGS river gauge on the Paria River near the confluence with the Colorado River (PLFA3) measured a 3.3 foot rise.
August 2024Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Heavy rain over far northern Arizona and south-central Utah caused several spikes on the Paria River just before it joined the Colorado River upstream from The Grand Canyon. The water flow started to increase (from 4.98 feet) around 100 PM MST on August 13. There were three crests in the flow: 6.24 feet at 500 PM, 704 feet at 800 PM MST on August 13, and 7.66 feet at 300 AM MST on August 14. The flow returned to near normal at around 1100 PM on August 14.
September 2023Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Heavy rain from thunderstorms over southern Utah and far northern Arizona caused flash flooding in the Paria River. The river gauge on the Paria at Lees Ferry (Colorado River) showed a two foot rise between 415 PM and 645 PM.
August 2023Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Heavy rain from thunderstorms moving south over the Paria River basin (including in Utah) caused flash flooding. The river gauge on the Paria River near the Colorado River (Lees Ferry) measured a rise in water the level 4.8 feet at 8:15 PM MST to 6.6 feet at 11:00 PM.
September 2022Flash FloodMarble Canyon-A river gauge on the Paria River near the Colorado River showed a 1.83 foot rise at 545 PM MST.
August 2022Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Heavy rain in Utah caused a two foot rise on the Paria River just before it joined the Colorado River at Lees Ferry.
July 2022Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Heavy rain in Utah caused a flash flood in the Paria River that drains into Arizona and the Colorado River near Lees Ferry. The river gauge near on the Paria River near the Colorado River peaked at 6.8 feet at 600 AM.
September 2022Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Heavy rain over far south-central Utah and far north-central Arizona resulted in a flash flood through Paria Canyon. The river gauge near the Colorado River showed almost a 4 foot rise.
July 2021Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Flood waters in the Paria River reached the river gauge near the Colorado River at 0500 and rose 3.3 feet in 15 minutes. The flood waters likely traveled down this slot canyon from Utah through the early morning hours.
June 2021Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Monsoon moisture increasing from the south brought thunderstorms across northern Arizona. Heavy Rain in Utah produced flash flooding in the Paria River that flows into Arizona and the gauge near Lees Ferry rose from 4.4 feet to 6.3 feet at 4:30 AM MST.
August 2021Flash FloodMarble Canyon-The Paria River gauge at Lees Ferry showed a 4 foot rise between 6:00 AM and 7:00 AM MST. The Paria River drainage originates in Utah and flows into the Colorado River near Lees Ferry.
July 2021Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Heavy rain over the Paria River drainage (in Arizona and Utah) caused the river gauge at Lees Ferry to rise 2.5 feet.
October 2018Flash FloodMarble Canyon-The river gauge on the Paria River at Lees Ferry recorded at 2.9 foot rise at 430 PM.
July 2018Flash FloodMarble Canyon-The Paria River Gauge at Lees Ferry showed a 3 foot rise at 645 AM. It is estimated that this flood crest entered Arizona (from thunderstorms in Utah) around 345 AM.
July 2018Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Heavy rain in Utah caused a flash flood that flowed into Arizona in the Paria River. The gauge at Lees Ferry (Colorado River) reached a peak flow of 1,436 CFS at 430 AM MST in a normally drive river bed. The flood took several hours to travel from the Utah border to the gauge.
July 2017Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Heavy rain over Utah caused flash flooding in Paria Canyon that flowed into Arizona. The River gauge on the Paria River (just before the confluence with the Colorado River near Lees Ferry) showed at 2 foot rise (6.16 foot stage).
September 2017Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused flash flooding in the Paria River. The USGS gauge on the Paria River near Lees Ferry rose over four feet to over 1500 CFS.
August 2017Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Heavy rain in Utah created a flash flood that flowed through the Paria River from Utah to the Colorado River in Arizona. The stream gauge near the Colorado River indicated a two foot rise in the normally dry river bed.
September 2016Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Heavy rain caused the Paria River at Lees Ferry to rise 4 feet.
August 2016Flash FloodMarble Canyon-Heavy rain in Utah caused the Paria River to flash flood as it flowed south into Arizona and into the Colorado River. The Paria River was estimated to rise more than 2 feet at the Utah Arizona border in around 15 minutes.
August 2016Flash FloodMarble Canyon-The observed rise in the Paria River gauge at Highway 89 (in Utah) was around 745 PM MST on August 4th. The crest reached the Lees Ferry gauge at around 415 AM on August 5th. Flash Flood levels in excess of 5 feet were estimated to have been in the Arizona section of the Paria River from 11 PM on August 4th through 7 AM on August 5th before entering the Colorado River.
August 2012Flash FloodMarble Canyon-A river gage in Paria Canyon measured a four foot rise in less than 30 minutes on the Paria River.

Every storm recorded in Coconino 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
Chair Crossing4.5 miles25
Page11.8 miles23
Bitter Springs12.9 miles23
Greenehaven13.0 miles26
Wahweap14.7 miles23
One Mile22.1 miles22
Jacob Lake31.5 miles26
Kaibito33.4 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 Marble CanyonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q258691The 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 25252. 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.