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Swansea
A ghost town in La Paz County, settled around 1909 to mine, process and smelt copper ore from the surrounding claims.
- Rank in Arizona
- #320of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 41.2 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
Swansea is a ghost town in La Paz County, Arizona. It was settled around 1909, in what was then Arizona Territory, and served as a mining town and as a site for processing and smelting the copper ore taken from nearby mines.
Where it is
Swansea is a historic site near Parker, in La Paz 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 Swansea, 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.
Mentioned in
- Arizona's 27 ghost towns publish no visitor count, and 22 of them are still read about — Not one abandoned settlement in this database records an official visitor figure, yet together they drew 136,163 Wikipedia reads in 2024.
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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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Parker
- County
- La Paz County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 41.2 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 20.9
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 34.1700, -113.8460
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12