Apex, Arizona

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

Apex, Arizona
Ghost town
Apex, Arizona
Location of Apex in Arizona
Coordinates: 35°56′35″N 112°11′09″W
CountryUnited States
StateArizona
CountyCoconino
Elevation6,594 ft (2,010 m)
Time zoneUTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (MST)
Area code(s)928
FIPS code04-02970
GNIS feature ID25248

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. 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 9780877458920.
  5. Gerber, Rudy J. "History and Archaeology en Route". The Railroad and the Canyon. p. 121. ISBN 9781455610860.
  6. Michael F. Anderson (2005). A Gathering of Grand Canyon Historians: Ideas, Arguments, and First-person Accounts. Grand Canyon Association. ISBN 9780938216834.


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