Cleator

Rank in Arizona: #277of 727 ranked
Overall score: Score 42.6 out of 100medium confidence
Category: Historic Site

Cleator, formerly Turkey Creek or Turkey, is a near ghost town and small community in Yavapai County, Arizona.

Where it is

Cleator is a historic site near Prescott, in Yavapai County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.

How this ranking was reached

No official visitor count is published for Cleator, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.

Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.

Sources

Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates

Record last verified 2026-08-12.

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Mimi Cummins from Canada, CC BY 2.0 · licence(opens in a new tab) · source(opens in a new tab)

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