Jerome climbs the side of Cleopatra Hill in the Black Hills, more than 5,000 feet up, looking out over the Verde Valley. This map prints the Jerome Public Library, the Connor Hotel, Spook Hall, the Jerome Historical Society Mine Museum, Upper Park, and Lower Park and Sliding Jail, with Bitter Creek giving shape to the hillside.
Jerome is a town in Yavapai County, along State Route 89A between Sedona and Prescott.
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 whole town was made a National Historic Landmark district in the 1960s, and the district takes in most of what’s built inside the town limits, mining sites outside them and the Douglas Mansion.
Copper on Cleopatra Hill
Two ore bodies are the main reason Jerome is here. They took shape about 1.75 billion years ago along a ring fault in the caldera of a volcano under the sea. The Hohokam were the first people known to live and farm near Jerome, from 700 to 1125 CE, and later Native peoples likely mined the colorful copper minerals malachite and azurite where the top of the ore body showed at the surface. Angus McKinnon and Morris A. Ruffner filed the first copper claims here in 1876. In 1883 new owners, backed by eastern financiers including Eugene Jerome of New York City, formed the United Verde Copper Company, and the camp on Cleopatra Hill was named for Jerome, who became the company’s secretary. William A. Clark, who’d made a fortune in Montana, bought the United Verde a few years later and had a narrow-gauge railroad built to Jerome Junction, a transfer point 27 miles to the west. The population grew from 250 in 1890 to more than 2,500 by 1900, and the United Verde became the leading copper producer in the Arizona Territory.
In 1914 a second company, the United Verde Extension, led by James S. Douglas Jr., known as Rawhide Jimmy, found a second ore body, and its Little Daisy Mine turned out uncommonly rich ore. Geologists Lon Abbott and Terri Cook have called Jerome’s combined copper deposits among the richest ever found. By the 1920s the town held more than 10,000 people. Jerome had a public library as early as 1889, and in the 1920s both mining companies gave money to the Jerome Public Library and to the town’s schools, churches and hospitals. Muckers, a 2013 novel for young adults by Sandra Neil Wallace, is based on the Jerome High School football team of 1950, which went undefeated that year, shortly before the mine closed.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: Sunshine Hill Rd, Jerome-Perkinsville Rd, Beale St, Diaz St, Upper Bell Rd, Bell Rd, Dundee Ln, State Rte 84, Douglas Rd, Magnolia St, Giroux St, Gulch Rd.
More street names, A to Z
Deception Ln, Hampshire Ave, Holly Ave, Nelly Bly Ln, Old Lozano Ln.
The town that refused to disappear
The mines closed for good in 1953, and the population fell below 100. The people who stayed turned to tourism and retail, and that same year they organized the Jerome Historical Society and opened a museum and gift shop. In 1956 the society reached an agreement with Phelps Dodge that no more buildings would be torn down in the main part of town. Douglas’s heirs gave the Douglas Mansion to the state in 1962, and it became Jerome State Historic Park, a museum of the town’s mining days; the park’s page calls the mansion, built of adobe bricks made on the site, the largest adobe structure in Arizona. Today the society runs the Mine Museum, and the town has art galleries, a library, three parks and two museums. In 2013 Jerome became the third city or town in Arizona to recognize civil unions between same-sex partners, after Bisbee and Tucson.
Lower Park and Sliding Jail share a label on this map. Ground movement since the 1930s left the old jail unusable but not destroyed, about 200 feet downhill from where it was built, and in 2017 the Jerome Historical Society took it over from the town. It’s now a popular stop for visitors, and the Barenaked Ladies mention it in their song “Jerome.” Bitter Creek, a tributary of the Verde River, flows on and off through town, and the town’s water comes from ten mountain springs. The Connor Hotel and Spook Hall have their places on the sheet too, and Mingus Mountain rises about 4 miles south of town.
This Jerome 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 Jerome 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 Jerome map.
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