The builders of Clear Creek Church set a Bible and a $5 gold piece in its cornerstone, and for years it was Camp Verde’s only church. Clear Creek Church is printed on this map of the town, along with the Pecan Lane Rural Historic Landscape, the Verde Valley Archaeology Center and Museum, Camp Verde Elementary School and Camp Verde Middle School, from Clear Creek out to Fort River Caves, with Wingfield Mesa, the Verde River and Beaver Creek shaping the valley.
Camp Verde is in Yavapai County, in the Verde River valley, with the Mogollon Rim just to the north.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief of Wingfield Mesa comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. The town covers 42.6 square miles, and Interstate 17 cuts through it, with the town reaching 8 miles west and 10 miles east of the freeway. The Black Hills lie to the southwest, and Prescott National Forest surrounds the town. Clear Creek Church and the Pecan Lane Rural Historic Landscape are on the National Register of Historic Places, and we checked them against National Park Service records. Camp Verde had 12,147 people at the 2020 census, up from 285 in 1960.
The fort on the Verde
In the middle of the 19th century, settlers near the Verde River grew corn and other crops to sell in Prescott, then the territorial capital, and to the miners nearby. The mining boom upset the hunting and gathering lands of the Dilzhe’e Apache and Yavapai people, and in 1865 the farmers asked the United States Army for protection. The infantry set up a small camp south of today’s town that year, then Camp Lincoln from 1866 to 1871. Camp Verde was built between 1871 and 1873, renamed Fort Verde in 1879, abandoned in 1891 and sold at public auction in 1899. The fort was never walled in and never saw fighting on its grounds. Of its twenty-two buildings, only four were still standing in 1956, when townspeople opened a small museum in the administration building. They later gave the buildings and ten acres to the state, and Fort Verde State Historic Park opened in 1970 in the town’s historic downtown. Its page quotes the judgment that it’s “the best preserved and least altered” of the military posts tied to General Crook’s campaign of 1872 and 1873. Some of its buildings were made of “pice,” large slabs of adobe cast in wooden frames, rather than of separate adobe bricks.
The town’s Yavapai name is ʼMatthi:wa, and in Western Apache it’s Gambúdih. The Yavapai-Apache Nation runs the Cliff Castle Casino, which the town page counts among the area’s draws.
Clear Creek Church
Clear Creek Church was built between 1898 and 1903 on Clear Creek Road, about 3.5 miles southeast of town, from limestone blocks taken from Hayfield wash on the Middle Verde River. It’s 40 by 25 feet, with a high gable roof. The gold piece in the cornerstone was chiseled out in the 1920s. The building served as the town’s only church until 1913, when it became Camp Verde’s one-room schoolhouse. It was abandoned in 1946, listed on the National Register in 1975, and the Camp Verde Historical Society later took over its care.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: Ranch Rd, E Thousand Trails Rd, Calico Dr, Forest 119 Rd, Cam Real, Seiler Rd, N Brocket Ranch Rd, E Orlandi Trl, Granada Wash Rd, E Mosher Rd, E Cornville Rd, Culpepper Ranch Rd.
More street names, A to Z
Albatros Rd, Bell Rd, Bullpen Rd, Canyon Dr, Clear Creek, Creek Rd, E Chipmunk Hollow, E Cross Rd, E Grippen Rd, E Red Baron Dr, E Rimrock Dr, E Zellner Ln, Forest 9203 Rd, Fr 544, FS Rd 626, Manzanita Ln, Montezuma Ave, N Camino Vista Dr, N FS Rd 618, Quarter Horse, Ranch Dr, Ridge Rd, Salt Mine Rd, S Arizona Ave, Sierra Verde Rd, S McCracken Ln, S Sierra Ln, Wikiup Mesa Rd, Wilshire Ave.
Along Beaver Creek
Beaver Creek drains into the Verde River just north of Camp Verde, and Montezuma Castle National Monument, in Camp Verde, protects a cliff dwelling set about 90 feet up a sheer limestone cliff facing the creek. It’s one of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in North America. The Southern Sinagua people built it as early as 1125 and lived in it until as late as 1395. The monument’s page notes that neither part of its name is right: the Aztec emperor Montezuma had nothing to do with it, and it was never a castle.
The Verde Valley Archaeology Center was founded in 2010 by Ken Zoll and seven fellow retirees, and in 2021 it moved into an 11,000 square foot building on Finnie Flat Road. Its exhibits cover Native American life in the Verde Valley, with murals by local Native American artists and a heritage garden laid out above old pit-houses. Camp Verde Elementary School and Camp Verde Middle School are printed on the map, along with the Pecan Lane Rural Historic Landscape, Clear Creek, Fort River Caves and Wingfield Mesa. American Heritage Academy – Camp Verde appears as well.
Every summer, on the third Saturday in July, downtown Camp Verde holds its Corn Fest, organized by the local growers Hauser and Hauser Farms. The town also holds the Pecan, Wine and Antiques Festival in February, the Crawdad Festival in June and Fort Verde Days in October.
This Camp Verde map is a good addition to an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of the area. It’s made for anyone who calls Camp Verde home, from Clear Creek to the banks of the Verde River, and KNOWOL created it in 2026 to show the town as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Camp Verde map.
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