Chloride – Arizona's First Mining Town

Trivia
on June 10, 2001

Chloride, northwest of Kingman (pop. 18,934), became northwest Arizona’s first mining town in the early 1860s and is the only one remaining today. Named for the type of silver found in the area, Chloride is near the base of the Cerbat Mountains, where early American Indian petroglyphs can be found, along with 30-foot murals painted by Roy Purcell in the 1960s.

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