Greenlee County, Arizona Information

The saga of the land mass called Greenlee County, Az reads like a novel. This was a land of dinosaurs and active volcano's. Then as time passed indigenous people settled, hunted and fished here for hundreds of years. Then explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado traveled through here around 1540. Geronimo was born on these lands in 1829 and after trappers wiped out the beaver population they stumbled onto rich reserves of minerals. Active mining in the area began in 1872 and continues to to this day. Greenlee County has year around running rivers, altitude from sea level to over 9,000 feet and more mountains and valleys than anyone can name.