Clifton, Arizona

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Greenlee County

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 7 records

• Black Gap Bridgelisted 1988
• Clifton Townsite Historic Districtlisted 1990
• Gila River Bridgelisted 1988
• Park Avenue Bridgelisted 1988
• Clifton Casa Grande Buildinglisted 1979
• Dell Potter Ranch Houselisted 1977
• Solomonville Road Overpasslisted 1988

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 41 shown

• Adam Smith House, Park Avenue, South of High Line Road, Cliftonfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Archie Morrison House & Outbuildings, 173 Frisco Street, Cliftonfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Archie Morrison Rental House, 175 Frisco Street, Cliftonfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Archie Morrison Rental House, 180 Frisco Street, Cliftonfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Archie Morrison Rental House, 182 Frisco Street, Cliftonfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Arizona and New Mexico Railway Passenger Station, Coronado Boulevard, Cliftonfederal building survey, 15 photographs
• Arizona Copper Company, Chief Engineer's House, Park Avenue, Cliftonfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Arizona Copper Company, Library Hall, Coronado Blouevard, Cliftonfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Arizona Copper Company, Manager's House, Park Avenue, Cliftonfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Arizona Copper Company, Office, Coronado Boulevard, Cliftonfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Arizona Copper Company, Smelter Blower House & Shed, West of Frisco Street, Cliftonfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Arizona Copper Company, Smelter Power House, West of Frisco Street, Cliftonfederal building survey, 2 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Greenlee County

Clifton grew from 3,311 to 3,933 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.

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.

• 1902 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1913 USGS Morenci quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1915 USGS Morenci quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:24000
• 1997 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Clifton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 270 acres in total. 8 started naturally. None was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• East Plantsite
• Plantsite
• Aragon Place
• Guthrie
• Three Way

Every fire recorded in Greenlee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Clifton: 20 producers, 10 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 unknowns. 21 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Manganese, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Greenlee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clifton in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 10 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Greenlee County

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,299 issues, 7,709 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 8 issues spread across its run from 1885 to 1922, 23,942 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 27713. 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.