Apex, Arizona

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Apex, Arizona
Ghost town
Apex, Arizona is located in Arizona
Apex, Arizona
Apex, Arizona
Location of Apex in Arizona
Coordinates: 35°56′35″N 112°11′09″W / 35.94306°N 112.18583°W / 35.94306; -112.18583Coordinates: 35°56′35″N 112°11′09″W / 35.94306°N 112.18583°W / 35.94306; -112.18583
CountryUnited States
StateArizona
CountyCoconino
Elevation
[1]
6,594 ft (2,010 m)
Time zoneUTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (MST)
Area code(s)928
FIPS code04-02970
GNIS feature ID25248

Apex was a lumber town on the Grand Canyon Railway situated in Coconino County, Arizona.[2]

Men without families would typically live in camps moving with the cutting activity, while families lived in a community at Apex station.[3] The settlement had its own school and telephone service.[3] Many of the workers and their families were from Sweden and Norway.[4][3] Lumber operations by the Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company ended in 1936 and it was abandoned.[3][5]

The school at Apex, along with the neighboring one at the mining town of Anita, were at one time the only racially integrated schools in Arizona.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ "Feature Detail Report for: Apex". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ^ "Apex (in Coconino County, AZ) Populated Place Profile". AZ Hometown Locator. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d Al Richmond (1986). "The Grand Canyon Railway: A History". The Journal of Arizona History. 27 (4): 425–438. JSTOR 41859703.
  4. ^ Don Lago (2004). On the Viking Trail: Travels in Scandinavian America. University of Iowa Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0877458920.
  5. ^ Gerber, Rudy J. "History and Archaeology en Route". The Railroad and the Canyon. p. 121. ISBN 978-1455610860.
  6. ^ Michael F. Anderson (2005). A Gathering of Grand Canyon Historians: Ideas, Arguments, and First-person Accounts. Grand Canyon Association. ISBN 978-0938216834.
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