Clarkdale began as a copper company’s planned town in 1912. The Clark Memorial Clubhouse, the Clark Memorial Library and the Broadway Bridge are printed on this map, along with the Verde Canyon Railroad Depot, the Arizona Copper Art Museum and the Yavapai College Verde Valley Campus. The neighborhoods reach from Centerville out to Saupkasuiva, and Bitter Creek, Blowout Creek and Cottonwood Ditch are printed too.
Clarkdale is in Yavapai County, about 40 miles southwest of Flagstaff in the Verde Valley.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief of the landscape comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. The town covers 7.5 square miles and sits at 3,545 feet, where Bitter Creek meets the Verde River. The Clark Memorial Clubhouse and the Broadway Bridge are on the National Register of Historic Places, and we checked them against National Park Service records. Clarkdale’s town page gives its population as 4,419.
Clark’s smelter town
William A. Clark, who made a fortune in copper, founded Clarkdale in 1912 as the smelter town for his United Verde mine in Jerome, about 4 miles away. The town page calls it one of the most modern mining towns in the world, with telephone, telegraph, electric, sewer and spring water service, and an early example of a planned community. The town center and business district went up in the Spanish Colonial style, and the Clark Memorial Clubhouse and the Memorial Library are both still in use. The whole original town site went on the National Register in 1998 as the Clarkdale Historic District, with the Clubhouse and the Broadway Bridge also listed on their own.
The mine and smelter closed in 1953, and hard years followed as the town passed from one company to another. Clarkdale incorporated in 1957. Two years later the Phoenix Cement Company built a plant here to supply cement for Glen Canyon Dam, and it brought back a modest prosperity. The plant, now Salt River Materials Group, is owned by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and is the town’s only major industry.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: Miller Rd, Bitter Creek Rd, Rio Torcedo, N Broadway, Main St, Reed Ln, Russell St, Bonnaha Ave, Laughing Hill Dr, N Malachite, Cement Plant Rd, Luke Ln.
More street names, A to Z
Airpark Dr, Airport Rd, Ave Centerville, Azurite Way, Bent River Rd, Canyon Rd, Casner Dr, Chateau Dr, Cleopatra Hill Rd, Crenshaw Ave, Crystal Peak Dr, Deborah Dr, Desert Moon Dr, E Cliffside Dr, E Hill Dr, Eleventh St, El Rancho Dr, E Mingus Ave, E Nicklaus Dr, First South St, Floyd Ct, Geary Heights Dr, Groseta Ranch Rd, Gulch Rd, Haskell Springs Rd, Hidden Springs Ln, Hill Rd, Horny Toad Rd, Lincoln Dr, Loma Vis, Lonestar Trl, Mabery Ranch Rd, Mescal Spur Rd, Minerich Rd, Moon Light Ln, Mountain Rd, New Venture Rd, N Heights Rd, Old Centerville Rd, Organ Pipe, Park Rd, Powder Box Rd, Randall Rd, Raven Hill Rd, Red Creek Dr, Red Tail Hawk Dr, Rincon Dr, Rio Ln, Riverview Dr, Roberts Rd, S Broadway, Selna Cir, Shadow Canyon Dr, S Hillcrest, Shiloh Trl, Skyline Ave, Spur Rd, State Rte 84, Tavasci Rd, Tinker Way, Todd Cir, Tuzigoot Rd, Tuzigot Vis, Verde St, W Black Hills Dr, W Cochise St, W Couples Dr, W Graham St, W Ocotillo St, W Pima St, Yavapai St.
The railroad and the museum
The tracks out of Clarkdale opened in 1912 as a branch linking the smelter and the Jerome mines to the Santa Fe Railway at Drake. The Santa Fe ran the line until 1988, and passenger trains came back in 1990 as the Verde Canyon Railroad. Its depot, headquarters and the John Bell Railroad Museum, housed in an old boxcar, are in Clarkdale. The four-hour, 40-mile round trip to Perkinsville follows the Verde River over bridges and trestles and through a curved tunnel 680 feet long, and the railroad carries about 100,000 passengers a year.
The Arizona Copper Art Museum fills the old Clarkdale High School, which held classes from 1928 to 1960 and then sat almost empty until 2002. John and Patricia Meinke started collecting copper in 1958, after seeing a few copper molds in an antique store, and their son Drake later searched the country for two years before settling on Clarkdale for its smelting past. The family bought the building that year and opened the museum in 2012, the centennial year for both Clarkdale and Arizona. It shows more than 5,000 copper pieces and won the Arizona Governor’s Tourism Award in 2014.
Around town
Centerville, the oldest development outside the historic town, sits off State Route 89A, and its name is said to come from being at the geographic center of Arizona. Yavapai College’s campus is in the Black Hills neighborhood and is home to the Southwest Wine Center. Each December the Made in Clarkdale group holds an invitational art show in the Clark Memorial Clubhouse. Just east of town, Tuzigoot National Monument keeps a Sinagua pueblo of 110 rooms built between 1125 and 1400 on a ridge above the Verde floodplain, and its name is a Tonto Apache term meaning “crooked waters.”
This Clarkdale 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 Clarkdale home, from the Clubhouse to the banks of Bitter Creek, 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 Clarkdale map.
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