Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Beaver Dam, AZ

Beaver Dam is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, in the remote Arizona Strip region northwest of the Grand Canyon.

Beaver Dam was settled by Mormon colonists on December 2, 1863, and Henry W. Miller is credited as its founder.

The community was named for the many beaver dams that once held back the waters of Beaver Dam Wash, and it was originally called Beaver Dams until the singular name Beaver Dam came into use around 1947.

The site lay on the Old Spanish Trail pack route from 1828 and on the Mormon Road wagon route between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles established in 1847, a major freighting road until the railroad reached Nevada in 1905.

The 2020 census counted 1,552 people in Beaver Dam, a decline from 1,962 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 729 households and 1,286 housing units in the CDP, a high number of units relative to population because many homes are seasonal winter residences.

Beaver Dam has an older population, with a median age of 60.8 years in the 2020 census and 42.5 percent of residents aged 65 or older.

Beaver Dam sits along Interstate 15 about 10 miles northeast of Mesquite, Nevada, and together with Littlefield, Scenic and Desert Springs it is one of the only Arizona communities on I-15.

Because the Arizona Strip is cut off from the rest of Arizona by the Grand Canyon and the Virgin River, reaching other Arizona towns from Beaver Dam requires driving through Nevada or Utah or using unpaved roads.

The Virgin River Gorge, carved by the Virgin River through the mountains east of town, begins just east of Beaver Dam.