Contention City, Arizona | |
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 Mason's Western Hotel in Contention City, 1880. | |
  Contention City, Arizona Location in the state of Arizona | |
| Coordinates: 31°46′8″N 110°12′7″W / 31.76889°N 110.20194°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| County | Cochise |
| Founded | 1880 |
| Abandoned | 1888 |
| Named for | Contention over ownership of a silver claim[1] |
| Elevation | 3,799 ft (1,158 m) |
| Population (2009) | |
| • Total | 0 |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (MST (no DST)) |
| Post Office opened | April 6, 1880 |
| Post Office closed | November 26, 1888 |
| GNIS | 24378 |
Contention City or Contention is a ghost mining town in Cochise County in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. It was occupied from the early 1880s through the late 1880s in what was then known as the Arizona Territory. Only a few foundations now remain of this boomtown which was settled and abandoned with the rise and fall of silver mining in and around the area of Tombstone.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
prestonwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Feature Detail Report for: Contention". Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). United States Geological Survey (USGS). February 8, 1980. Retrieved July 21, 2009.