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Supai, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Havasupai census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86435. It lies near Schoolhouse Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Supai quadrangle. It stands 3,196 feet above sea level.

Supai within Coconino County

Population over time

2 figures

Supai fell from 423 to 208 between 2000 and 2010. 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
2000423
2010208-215 (-51%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Supai between 1995 and 2014, burning about 275 acres in total. 2 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
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Natural2

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
24 August 2011Debris and open burning20 acresTruxton Canyon AgencyNAVAJO
4 June 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTruxton Canyon AgencyFALLS
22 June 2001Natural250 acresGrand Canyon National ParkYUMTHESKA
7 May 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTruxton Canyon AgencyLODGE
5 May 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTruxton Canyon AgencyDEADHORSE
22 May 1995Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkTOWAGO
10 May 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTruxton Canyon AgencyCOTTONWOOD
22 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTruxton Canyon AgencySUPAI

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Supai: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Vanadium, Silver. 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
Bridal Veil ClaimVanadium, Lead, Zinc, CopperOccurrence
Bridal Veil MinesLead, Zinc, Vanadium, SilverPast Producer
Carbonate Canyon CalciteLead, Semiprecious GemstonePast Producer
Uranium Deposit- M003671UraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Supai in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 10 flash flood, 3 flood, 1 hail. The reports record 3 deaths. 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 2001Flash FloodSupai3 killedA two year old boy and his parents were killed in a flash flood while hiking in Havasu Canyon. Two other family members had reached the the safety of Havasupai Village before the late night storm hit.
August 1997Flash FloodSupai$300,000Heavy rain from training thunderstorms caused a flash flood along Cataract Creek in the village of Supai, capital of the Havasupai Tribe. Power, water and sewage were washed out. Many homes and structures flooded. About 400 campers and residents were evacuated by helicopter. Red cross, BIA, National Guard, the Arizona DPS, a contract helicopter firm, and local law enforcement participated in the evacuation.
August 1997Flash FloodSupai$5,000A large white water raft was washed away during minor flooding along Havasu Creek and the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park. No people were in the raft and it was recovered, but damaged, several days later.
August 2018HailSupai-Pea sized hail started at 350 PM MST and then progressed in size to quarter sized (1 inch diameter) y 355 PM MST.
July 2006Flash FloodSupai-Flooding in and around the Supai Village. The river through the canyon grew to between 50 and 75 feet wide. None of the bridges around the village were usable.
September 2004Flash FloodSupai-Flash flooding washed out a bridge and came within one foot of covering another bridge in Supai Village. People were evacuated from Supai Canyon.
August 2003Flash FloodSupai-A five foot wall of water came down Havasu Creek near the town of Supai. Hikers were able to escape to higher ground and the Supai Trail was closed for four hours.
August 2003Flash FloodSupai-Supai Police Department reported that the water in normally dry Hualapai Canyon was four feet deep.
October 2000Flash FloodSupai-Heavy rain during the day caused the water in Supai Creek to overflow its banks. By 430 PM, the water flowed around two bridges making them unusable. The rising water stranded 10 to 15 hikers and 20 pack animals. Parts of the campgrounds were closed after the creek rose more than three feet. The town of Supai was unaccessable until the water went down after 800 PM.
July 1999Flash FloodSupai-Members of the Supai Police Dept. reported Cataract Creek rose 6 feet, overtopping several bridges and forcing the evacuation of the Supai campground.
July 1999Flash FloodSupai-Heavy rains produced flash flooding of Cataract Creek in the Supai village. Campgrounds in the drainage were evacuated before the flood waters hit.
September 1998FloodSupai-Heavy rains caused the normally dry Supai Creek to rise and flood the Supai Creek campground.
July 1998FloodSupai-A preliminary evacuation of the Supai Campground occurred due to rises in Supai Creek and its tributary Cataract Creek.
July 2002FloodSupai-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coconino County

Newspapers printed here

208 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 88 issues, 208 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
The Supai Weekly News195? to 1958

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
Big Springs30.9 miles22
Coconino30.9 miles19
Grand Canyon31.7 miles39
North Rim33.3 miles39
Apex33.5 miles19
Tusayan34.9 miles19
Woodin35.3 miles18
Rose Well Camp35.5 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 SupaiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476581The 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 12003. 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.