Vulture City
Vulture City is a ghost town situated at the site of the defunct Vulture Mine in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.
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
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
This place scores 48.3 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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