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Vulture City
Vulture City is a ghost town in Maricopa County, Arizona, standing at the site of the defunct Vulture Mine.
- Rank in Arizona
- #157of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 48.3 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
Vulture City is a ghost town in Maricopa County, Arizona, at the site of the defunct Vulture Mine.
Where it is
Vulture City is a historic site near Yarnell, in Maricopa 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 Vulture City, 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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Walnut Grove Dam
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Yarnell
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 48.3 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 36.6
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 33.8789, -112.7950
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12