Tusayan, Arizona
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Williams census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86023. It lies near Long Jim Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tusayan West quadrangle. 603 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,611 feet above sea level.
On record in Tusayan
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 3 records
Grand Canyon Airport Historic Districtlisted 2007
Moqui Ranger Stationlisted 1993
Tusayan Lookout Treelisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresTusayan grew from 558 to 603 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 558 | |
| 2020 | 603 | +45 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Chino quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1891 USGS Chino quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Tusayan West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Valle quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
463 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 463 fires within 5 miles of Tusayan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,611 acres in total. 219 started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 219 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 187 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | TRICK |
| 8 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | not named |
| 8 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | CHARLEY |
| 7 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | APACHE |
| 7 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | LONG |
| 7 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | TEN |
| 6 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | COCONINO |
| 5 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | 306 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tusayan: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Star Claims MS 1210a | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Eastern Star Mine | Copper | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Southern Star | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Southern Star Mine | Copper | Past Producer | Vein |
Storms near this place
5 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tusayan in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Tusayan | $7,000,000 | Between 1 to 2.5 inches of rain fell in around two hours just east and northeast of the town of Tusayan and the South Entrance to The Grand Canyon National Park. This caused significant flooding of homes homes, buildings, and cars. Highway 64 into the GCNP was closed, shelter in place orders were put into place, and children were stuck in their school because they could not safely get home. |
| September 2013 | Heavy Rain | Tusayan | - | Thunderstorms produced about one inch of rain in under an hour. This created some flooding problems in the Grand Canyon Village and below the Rim. One range guage in the area reported 0.92 inches of rain in 40 minutes. Another guage in the area reported 1.85 inches of rain between 135 PM and 245 PM. |
| July 2012 | Heavy Rain | Tusayan | - | Between 1.22 and 2.50 inches of rain fell across the South Rim of the Grand Canyon westward to Supai Village in 5 to 8 hours. Rockslides were reported on Bright Angel Trail. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Tusayan | - | Hail slightly larger than a nickel (7/8 inch diameter) was reported a the Grand Canyon Airport. |
| September 1995 | Hail | Tusayan | - | A thunderstorm piled up hail two inches deep on State Highway 64 creating icy road conditions and caused several collisions. Three-quarter inch hail up to two inches deep was reported in the same area. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apex | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| Coconino | 4.1 miles | 19 | |
| Grand Canyon | 5.6 miles | 39 | |
| Woodin | 11.0 miles | 18 | |
| Willaha | 16.3 miles | 18 | |
| North Rim | 16.7 miles | 39 | |
| Vista Encantada | 19.5 miles | 24 | |
| Valle | 22.1 miles | 19 |
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 Tusayan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1018999 | The 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 42842. 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.








