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This is a partial list of ghost towns in Arizona in the United States. Most ghost towns in Arizona are former mining boomtowns that were abandoned when the mines closed. Those not set up as mining camps often became mills or supply points supporting nearby mining operations.
Signal is a ghost town located on the banks of the Big Sandy River in southern Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The town was a mining center from the 1870s to 1930s. The peak population was around 800. Remnants of the town can still be seen today along with nearby Virginia City. [1] [2]
From 1934 to 1937, the Montana mine was the leading lead and zinc producer in Arizona. In 1936, it was third in silver production. The mine closed in 1940, and by the end of 1941 Ruby was abandoned. [2] Ruby is one of the two best-preserved mining ghost towns in Arizona, along with the Vulture Mine near Wickenburg. Ruby's attractions today ...
Apart from a few building foundations in the town center, and the railroad tracks at the edge of the now-abandoned town site, Cochran's last (and most notable) remains are five largely intact beehive coke ovens across the Gila River at Butte, Arizona. (These coke ovens are actually from an earlier town that existed before Cochrane came into ...
Gleeson is a ghost town situated in southeastern Cochise County, Arizona, United States. [3] It has an estimated elevation of 4,924 feet (1,501 m) above sea level. [1] The town was first settled as Turquoise [4] in the 1870s in what was then the Arizona Territory, then later re-established as Gleeson in 1900.
The amount of the investment needed to reopen Ghost Town was noted in the documents as between $79-80 million for which "verbal commitments" from a "major Charlotte-area real estate investor" had ...
Dome (O'odham: Hi:lo) is a ghost town located in Yuma County, in southwestern Arizona, United States.It is located in the Dome Valley south of the Gila River.Originally Swiveler's Station, 20 miles (32 km) east of Fort Yuma on the Butterfield Overland Mail route, a post office was established here in 1858.
Reymert is a ghost town in Pinal County, Arizona, United States.. Reymert was originally established around a post office that began operation on June 6, 1890. Reymert was named after its founder, James DeNoon Reymart, who also founded the adjacent milling and smelting town of DeNoon.