5.7 miles away
Pinal City
Pinal or Pinal City is a ghost town in Pinal County in the U.S. state of Arizona. The town was populated from the 1870s into the 1890s, in what was then the Arizona Territory.
Oak Flat
Oak Flat (Western Apache: Chíchʼil Bił Dagoteel, Navajo: Chéchʼil Bił Dahoteel) is a mesa in Pinal County about 40 miles (64 km) east of Phoenix in the Tonto National Forest. A high desert setting at 3,900 feet (1,200 m) elevation, the land is sacred to Native Americans from the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation and many other Arizona tribes. This federally-managed area is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and features a U.S.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Globe
- County
- Pinal County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 45.5 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 30.4
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 33.3080, -111.0470
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Oak Flat is a natural landmark near Globe, in Pinal County. It is one of the natural landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 45.5 out of 100, at medium confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Description: Wikipedia(opens in a new tab), used under CC BY-SA 4.0(opens in a new tab)
- 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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