Kearny was built in 1958 as a new home for the people of three mining towns that stood in the way of the Ray mine. This map prints Hubbard Park, the Kearny Public Library, Rose Bradford Constitution Hall, Ray Elementary School and the Kearny Airport, with Kearny Lake giving shape to the land.
Kearny is a town in Pinal County, in the Copper Basin near the Gila River.
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. Kearny covers 2.8 square miles, and its sister towns in the Copper Basin are Hayden and Winkelman; 1,741 people lived here at the 2020 census.
A planned town for three mining camps
The Kennecott Mining Company built Kearny as a planned community to take in the people of Ray, Sonora and Barcelona, three camps that were about to be swallowed by Kennecott’s growing open-pit copper mine. Many of the houses in the new town were built fresh, but some mine employees had their homes moved down the road. Kearny was incorporated in 1959. Ray itself is a ghost town now, named for the Ray mine, which the Ray Copper Company began in 1882 and named for the sister of one of the miners. A newspaper, the Arizona Copper Camp, came out in Ray from 1910 to 1920. Sonora was demolished to make room for the mine. The wrestler Gory Guerrero and the theatre artist and activist Jeanmarie Simpson were both born in Ray.
The town takes its name from General Stephen Watts Kearny, who passed through the area on November 7, 1846, leading 100 dragoons to California during the Mexican-American War. His regiment, the 1st Dragoons, grew into the United States Cavalry, which earned Kearny the nickname “father of the United States Cavalry,” and on that march he followed the Gila River trail west.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: Allen Dr, Griffin Rd, Jamestown Rd, Emery Dr, Croyden Rd, Senator Chastain Rd, Alden Rd, Danbury Rd, Upton Dr, Airport Rd, Camino Rio Rd, Victoria Cir.
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Elementary School Rd.
The mine and the town today
The Ray mine is a large copper mine near Kearny, and its page says it holds one of the largest copper reserves in the United States. ASARCO, part of Grupo México, bought it from Kennecott in 1986. Mineral Creek runs north to south through the mine property, and a concrete arch dam and an underground tunnel carry it around the pit to a channel that joins the Gila River. The town’s page names the Ray mine and the Hayden Smelter as the economic base of Kearny and its neighbors, and copper from the mine goes to that smelter. The smelter’s own page says it closed in a labor dispute in 2020 and was still closed in early 2025.
Kearny belongs to the Ray Unified School District, which runs two schools, Ray Junior/Senior High School and Ray Elementary School. Both schools are printed on this map. Kearny Airport, in the southern part of town, is a general aviation field with a single asphalt runway 3,400 feet long, and in 2003 it won the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Airport of the Year award. Hubbard Park, Rose Bradford Constitution Hall, the Kearny Public Library and Kearny Lake have their places on the sheet as well.
This Kearny 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 Kearny 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 Kearny map.
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