Morenci, Arizona
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Clifton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85540. It lies near Modoc Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Clifton quadrangle. 2,028 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,747 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresMorenci grew from 1,879 to 2,028 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,879 | |
| 2010 | 1,489 | -390 (-21%) |
| 2020 | 2,028 | +539 (+36%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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
Photographs
8 of 31 photographs shown, 1940 to 1942Taken 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.
Henle, Fritz, 1942. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Henle, Fritz, 1942. Library of Congress
Henle, Fritz, 1942. Library of Congress
Henle, Fritz, 1942. Library of Congress
Henle, Fritz, 1942. Library of Congress
Henle, Fritz, 1942. Library of Congress
Henle, Fritz, 1942. Library of Congress
Every photograph of Greenlee County
Fires near this place
5 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Morenci between 1992 and 2017, burning about 10 acres in total. 3 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | not named |
| 18 July 2004 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Gila District Office | MORENCI |
| 30 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Gila District Office | CORONADO |
| 2 June 2006 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Gila District Office | TURTLE |
| 28 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Gila District Office | POTTER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 87 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 87 workings within 5 miles of Morenci: 43 producers, 31 past producers, 4 prospects, 4 occurrences. 44 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aricana Mining Corp | Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Arizona Central Mine | Copper, Zinc, Iron | Producer | 1870, 1882, 1920 | |
| Bell and Pinkard Group | Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper | Producer | 1949, 1951 | |
| Buzzard's Shadow Mine | Gold, Copper, Silver, Manganese | Producer | 1901, 1904, 1915 | |
| Clifton Copper Mines | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Clifton Copper Mines | Copper, Molybdenum, Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | 1875, 1905, 1911 | |
| Colorado | Copper, Gold, Zinc, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Copper Mountain Kaolin Occurrence | Kaolin | Occurrence | Kaolinite | |
| Coronado Mine | Copper, Zinc, Lead, Manganese | Producer | 1874, 1913, 1918 | |
| Corporate and Climax Claims | Gold, Manganese | Past Producer | 1932 |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stargo | 0.8 miles | 20 | |
| Metcalf (historical) | 2.3 miles | 20 | |
| Plantsite | 2.3 miles | 20 | |
| East Plantsite | 3.3 miles | 20 | |
| Clifton | 4.1 miles | 20 | |
| Maques Place | 7.1 miles | 12 | |
| Aragon Place | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Granville | 7.7 miles | 20 |
Elsewhere
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.
| Wikipedia article on Morenci | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1249583 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 32021. 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.










