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North Rim, Arizona

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Kaibab Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86052. It lies near Harvey Meadow. The Survey maps it on the Bright Angel Point quadrangle. It stands 8,297 feet above sea level.

North Rim within Coconino County

On record in North Rim

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 within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 39 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.

Grand Canyon Inn & National Park Headquarters, Santa Fe River, North Rim, intersection of Canyon & Cerro Gordo Roads, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, AZ
Grand Canyon Inn & National Park Headquarters, Santa Fe River, North Rim, intersection of Canyon & Cerro Gordo Roads, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

164 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of North Rim between 1992 and 2019, burning about 47,089 acres in total. 128 started naturally. None was 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
Natural128
Recreation and ceremony24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
9 September 2019Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkJIM
9 September 2011Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkHADES
9 September 2000Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkTHOMPSON
5 September 1999Natural81 acresGrand Canyon National ParkREDTAIL
4 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkMANZANITA
3 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkUNCLE JIM
3 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkUNCLE JIM2
26 September 2000Natural1.0 acresGrand Canyon National ParkDYNAMITE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino 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 North Rim: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Rim in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. 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 2021Flash FloodNorth Rim1 killed, 4 hurtA flash flood rushed down the Tatahatso Wash/Slot Canyon into the Colorado River (38 miles down stream from Lees Ferry). A commercial river trip with 30 people and two large raft had set up camp at the mouth of the wash for the night. The flash flood washed away the camp. Four people were injured and one person died.
September 2025Flash FloodNorth Rim-The National Park Service and USGS provided pictures and USGS stream gage data of a flash flood event that occurred in North Canyon Wash. The stream gage showed a peak rise of 1.1 feet at 8:55 PM on September 4th, followed by a second peak rise of 0.8 feet at 2:55 AM on September 5th. The pictures indicated higher flows of water mixed with debris and fire ash from its source in the Dragon Bravo Burn Scar area.
August 2021HailNorth Rim-Golf ball sized hail (1.75 inches diameter) was reported near the entrance to the North Rim of The Grand Canyon National Park.
July 2006Flash FloodNorth Rim-A Grand Canyon National Park ranger reported flash flooding on the road toward Tuweep.

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
Vista Encantada4.9 miles24
Grand Canyon11.5 miles39
Coconino16.6 miles19
Tusayan16.7 miles19
Apex19.6 miles19
Woodin27.0 miles18
Big Springs31.0 miles22
Willaha32.8 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 North RimAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7056497The 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 8757. 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.