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Beaver Dam
ArizonaCDP
Beaver Dam
Total population
1,624
Median home value
$264,400
Bachelor's+
Median income
$72,650
Founded
1863
Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
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Overview
Beaver Dam is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, that is located in the Arizona Strip region and was settled on December 2, 1863. It is located along Interstate 15 approximately 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Mesquite, Nevada. It is located in the 86432 ZIP Code. It had a population of 1,552 as of the 2020 census, a decline from the figure of 1,962 tabulated in 2010.
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History
The site of Beaver Dam was located along the pack horse route of the Old Spanish Trail from 1828 and the later wagon route of the Mormon Road between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles from 1847. Beaver Dam Wash and subsequently the town were named for the many beaver dams that occupied and held back the waters on the wash when the first Mormon party under Jefferson Hunt established the wagon road through the area in 1847. Beaver Dams was the original name from 1863 to about 1947 when the Arizona Department of Highways (now ADOT) used the singular name of Beaver Dam on road signs and the new name has been used since. The Mormon Road was used by Forty-niners in 1849 and Mormon colonists and other travelers from then on. Both routes passed southward from the Beaver Dam Mountains to the Virgin River along the Beaver Dam Wash to where it met the river. From 1855, the road was a major wagon freighting road until the railroad arrived in Nevada in 1905. Beaver Dam was first settled by Mormon colonists in 1863.
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- Beaver Dam ElementaryElementary · BEAVER DAM · 208 students · 14.9:1 ratio
- Beaver Dam High SchoolHigh · BEAVER DAM · 152 students · 15.2:1 ratio
Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).
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Recent natural events nearby
- Wildfire Widemouth 2, Millard, UtahWildfires · 2026-07-27 · 148 mi
- Wildfire Ward, White Pine, NevadaWildfires · 2026-07-31 · 160 mi
- Wildfire Campwood, Yavapai, ArizonaWildfires · 2026-08-23 · 164 mi
- Wildfire Black Canyon, Sanpete, UtahWildfires · 2026-07-30 · 223 mi
- Wildfire Tom Creek, Tooele, UtahWildfires · 2026-08-24 · 224 mi
- Prescribed Fire D2 Vincent RX, Coconino, ArizonaWildfires · 2026-09-17 · 238 mi
- Prescribed Fire D2 Dye RX, Coconino, ArizonaWildfires · 2026-09-17 · 241 mi
Wildfires, storms and other events from NASA EONET (last 12 months, within 250 mi).
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • US Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates)
- • NOAA National Weather Service
- • Wikidata
- • USGS NWIS (water data)
- • NCES via Urban Institute Education Data Portal
- • CDC PLACES
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • NASA EONET