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Clifton is a town in and is the county seat of Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, [3] along the San Francisco River. The population of the town was 3,311 at the 2010 census , [ 4 ] with a 2018 population estimate of 3,700. [ 5 ]
The Clifton Townsite Historic District, in Clifton, Arizona, is a 37-acre (15 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [ 1 ] It is historically significant as "a largely intact area within Clifton, a copper mining town in eastern Arizona which developed between 1870 and 1930.
Clifton Hotel – built in 1881 – 163 Park Ave. the first hotel built by Jake Abrahams; Clifton Hot Springs & Spa – built in 1929 on Park Ave. [23] James Colquhoun House – built in 1900 and located on Park Ave. Colquhoun was the president of the Arizona Copper Company. The house was originally across the San Francisco River near the train ...
The biggest employer in Morenci (and in nearby Clifton) and the owner of the town is Freeport-McMoRan, the owner of the Morenci Mine, the largest copper mining operation in North America, and one of the largest copper mines in the world. The town was a site of the Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983. The large open-pit mine is north of the town.
The Park Avenue Bridge over the San Francisco River in Clifton, Arizona. The San Francisco River is a 159-mile-long (256 km) [1] river in the southwest United States, [2] the largest tributary of the Upper Gila River. It originates near Alpine, Arizona and flows into New Mexico before reentering Arizona and joining the Gila downstream from Clifton.
1901 Clifton railroad station, now used by the Chamber of Commerce and other community organizations. Azurite specimen from the great Morenci Mine. Greenlee County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,563, [1] making it Arizona's least populous county. The county seat is ...
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Eagle Creek is a 58.5-mile-long (94.1 km) [1] river located 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Clifton, Arizona, United States, at the base of the White Mountain Range. It is a tributary of the Gila River.