Apex, Arizona
Apex, Arizona | |
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Populated place | |
  Apex, Arizona Location of Apex in Arizona | |
| Coordinates: 35°56′35″N 112°11′09″W / 35.94306°N 112.18583°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| County | Coconino |
| Elevation | 6,594 ft (2,010 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain (MST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (MST) |
| Area code | 928 |
| FIPS code | 04-02970 |
| GNIS feature ID | 25248 |
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
- ^ "Feature Detail Report for: Apex". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Apex (in Coconino County, AZ) Populated Place Profile". AZ Hometown Locator. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
- ^ a b c d Al Richmond (1986). "The Grand Canyon Railway: A History". The Journal of Arizona History. 27 (4): 425–438. JSTOR 41859703.
- ^ Don Lago (2004). On the Viking Trail: Travels in Scandinavian America. University of Iowa Press. p. 105. ISBN 9780877458920.
- ^ Gerber, Rudy J. "History and Archaeology en Route". The Railroad and the Canyon. p. 121.
- ^ 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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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
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