Catoctin, Arizona

Catoctin, Arizona
Ghost Town
Country	United States
State	Arizona
County	Yavapai
Time zone	MST (no DST)
Post Office Opened:	December 29, 1902
Post Office Closed:	July 15, 1920

Catoctin in Yavapai County, Arizona was a small gold mining camp. The camp was established around 1902 and received a post office on December 29 of the same year. It is located on upper Hassayampa River, sixteen miles southeast of Prescott, Arizona. Only a handful of mining buildings and homes were constructed and on average the town was home to about twenty people. The Catoctin and Climax mines were nearby. On July 15, 1920 the post office was closed.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Sherman, James E; Barbara H. Sherman (1969). Ghost Towns of Arizona. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 20. ISBN 0-8061-0843-6.
↑ "Catoctin Mine, Hassayampa District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA". Mindat.org. 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2010-08-01.

Coordinates: 34°25′32″N 112°31′50″W / 34.4255555556°N 112.530555556°W / 34.4255555556; -112.530555556

Municipalities and communities of Yavapai County, Arizona, United States

County seat: Prescott

Cities	Cottonwood Peoria‡ Prescott Sedona‡

Towns	Camp Verde Chino Valley Clarkdale Dewey-Humboldt Jerome Prescott Valley Wickenburg‡

CDPs	Ash Fork Bagdad Black Canyon City Congress Cordes Lakes Cornville Lake Montezuma Mayer Paulden Peeples Valley Seligman Spring Valley Verde Village Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) Wilhoit Williamson Yarnell

Unincorporated communities	Abra Apron Crossing Arcosanti Arnold Place, Arizona Audley Aultman Baldwin Place Baldwins Crossing Bear Big Reef Mill Bignotti Breezy Pines Briggs Burro John Casa Rosa Castle Canyon Mesa Cedar Mill Cherry Chilean Mill Cleator Columbia Constellation Copperopolis Crookton Crown King Dandrea Date Deering Park Estates Diamond Valley Drake Dugas East Fort Eddy Place Entro Ferguson Place Windmill Flores Flower Pot Forbing Park Fort Misery Gillette Glen Oaks Goodwin Grand View Granite Basin Summer Homes Granite Dells Granite Siding Groom Creek Hawkins Hecla Highland Park Hillside, Arizona Hooper Humbug Iron Springs Juniper Heights Kirkland Kirkland Junction Lancaster Lapham Octave Perkinsville Potato Patch Red Rock Skull Valley

Indian reservation	Hualapai Indian Reservation Yavapai Reservation Yavapai-Apache Nation Indian Reservation

Ghost towns	Alexandra American Ranch Apron Crossing Big Bug Bradshaw City Bumble Bee Catoctin Cordes Curtis Jerome Junction Juniper Octave Piedmont Simmons Stanton Tip Top Weaver

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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