Country United States County Gila Abandoned: c. 1927 Elevation 1,430 m | State Arizona Founded: c. 1906 Time zone MST (no DST) (UTC-7) Local time Thursday 7:58 AM | |
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Bellevue is a ghost town in Gila County, Arizona, five miles southwest of Miami.
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Map of Bellevue, Arizona 85539, USA
History
The settlement was founded as a mining camp around 1906 when a post office was established. The name of the founder is unknown though the town was built to harbor the Gibson Cooper Mine. The Bellevue-Miami Stagecoach company had a stage there. A boarding house, general store and the post office were among many houses. The population got as high 300 before 1927 when the post office closed and the settlement became a ghost town. As of today, the concrete Gibson Cooper mill still stands, along with metal mining equipment. Piles of ore can be found also.
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Bellevue, Arizona Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA