Hayden is a copper town next to Winkelman, where the San Pedro River flows into the Gila River. This map prints the ASARCO Hayden Plant, the Hayden Public Library, Saint Joseph Catholic Church, the Hayden Swimming Pool and Park, the Hayden Post Office and the Hayden Golf Course and Clubhouse, with the Gila River and San Pedro River shaping the land.
Hayden is a town that lies partly in Gila County and partly in Pinal County.
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 1.3 square miles, all of it land, and 512 people lived here at the 2020 census.
A smelter town
Hayden was founded in 1909 as a town owned by the Kennecott Copper Corporation, and in 1912 the company built the Hayden Smelter. The smelter belongs to ASARCO now, and it processed copper from the Ray mine. Its chimney stands 1,001 feet tall, and the smelter’s page calls it the tallest free-standing structure in Arizona; the town’s page calls it the tallest smelter chimney in the state. ASARCO itself was founded in 1888 as the American Smelting and Refining Company. The smelter closed in 2020 in a labor dispute and was still closed in early 2025, and whether it will reopen is uncertain. The old Valley National Bank building in town now houses the Hayden Police Department.
Dick Tuck was born in Hayden in 1924, the son of a copper mining engineer. He served in a Marine Corps bomb disposal unit in World War II and became a political consultant, campaign strategist and political prankster. Richard Nixon’s presidential tapes show him fixated on Tuck, though Nixon admired him too. Tuck was a key adviser in Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: Hillside Dr, Canyon Dr, Cottonwood Rd, Kennecott Ave, Utah Ave, Hayden Ave, Garfield Ave, Morris Rd, Velasco Ave, Smelter Rd, Asarco Dr, Terrace Dr.
More street names, A to Z
Golf Course Rd, Lobo Ln, Randall Ave, River Dr, Romero Rd, Second St, Third St, W Quarelli St.
Where the rivers meet
Hayden is next to Winkelman, a town named for a local cattleman, Peter Winkelman. The Gila River passes along the east and south sides of Winkelman, and the San Pedro River joins it there. The San Pedro flows north out of Sonora, Mexico, for 140 miles through Arizona, and its page calls it the last major undammed desert river in the American Southwest, home to two-thirds of the bird species found in the United States. The first people in the San Pedro Valley were the Clovis people, who hunted mammoth there 10,000 years ago, and the valley has the highest concentration of Clovis sites in North America. The Gila, Keli Akimel in O’odham, runs 649 miles to the Colorado River, and Indigenous peoples have lived and farmed along it for at least 2,000 years. Hayden High School and Winkelman Elementary School stand side by side in Winkelman, both run by the Hayden Winkelman Unified School District. Saint Joseph Catholic Church, the Hayden Public Library and the Hayden Post Office have their places on the sheet, along with the Hayden Swimming Pool and Park and the golf course.
This Hayden 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 Hayden home, 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 Hayden map.
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