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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.

Tusayan within Coconino County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Tusayan 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.

YearPeople Change
2010558
2020603+45 (+8%)

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.

Fires near this place

463 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural219
Recreation and ceremony187
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 1998Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestTRICK
8 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKaibab National Forestnot named
8 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKaibab National ForestCHARLEY
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestAPACHE
7 September 2006Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestLONG
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestTEN
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestCOCONINO
5 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKaibab National Forest306

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Eastern Star Claims MS 1210aCopperPast Producer
Eastern Star MineCopperPast ProducerVein
Southern StarCopperPast Producer
Southern Star MineCopperPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Flash FloodTusayan$7,000,000Between 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 2013Heavy RainTusayan-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 2012Heavy RainTusayan-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 2008HailTusayan-Hail slightly larger than a nickel (7/8 inch diameter) was reported a the Grand Canyon Airport.
September 1995HailTusayan-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.

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
Apex3.8 miles19
Coconino4.1 miles19
Grand Canyon5.6 miles39
Woodin11.0 miles18
Willaha16.3 miles18
North Rim16.7 miles39
Vista Encantada19.5 miles24
Valle22.1 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 TusayanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1018999The 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.