Mammoth is named for the old Mammoth Mine, a few miles west of town, and it began as the mill town on the San Pedro River where that mine’s ore was processed. This map runs from North Mammoth out to Fordville and prints the Mammoth Post Office, the Mammoth Public Library, the Mammoth Community Center, the Pinal County Mammoth Office, Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church and the Mammoth Softball Field Park, with the Black Hills, Red Hill and Signal Peak in shaded relief.
Mammoth is a town in Pinal County.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief of the Black Hills, Red Hill and Signal Peak comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. The town covers 1.1 square miles, and 1,076 people lived here at the 2020 census.
The mine, the mill and the tram
The town’s page says Mammoth was founded around 1872 as Mammoth Camp, to serve the nearby Mammoth Mine. The page on Tiger, the mining camp at the mine itself, tells it this way: after Frank Schultz found gold ore at what became the Mammoth Mine, there was no water at the mine for refining the ore, so a mill went up 4 miles away on the west bank of the San Pedro River, and the town around it came to be called Mammoth, after the mine and the mill. Mule teams hauled the ore down until an aerial tram between the mine and the mill was finished early in the 20th century. The mines reopened during World War I for the molybdenum and vanadium in the area, and after the war Sam Houghton bought the Mammoth Mine and renamed the mine and its camp Tiger, after his college mascot, the Princeton Tiger.
The Tiger, or Mammoth, mine is a famous place among mineral collectors, known especially for matlockite and wulfenite, and a mineral called yedlinite is found only at Tiger. The town’s page says minerals from the old Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine are in all the major mineral collections. Nothing is left of Tiger today but the filled-in shaft of the mine. Later Mammoth was a bedroom community for the San Manuel Mine until that mine closed in 2003, and the ghost town of Copper Creek nearby is a popular local outing.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: Rash Dr, Camino Rio Rd, S River Rd, Honeyfield Ave, Tucson Wash Rd, E Blue Bonnet St, Baywood St, E Bentwood St, W Oracle Ranch Rd, Barbara Dr, Old Hwy 77, E American Ave.
More street names, A to Z
American Ave, E Webb Ct, Goodman Ranch Rd, San Manuel Airport Rd, San Pedro River Rd, S Reddington Rd, Tiger Mine Rd, Webb Rd.
Sister Bourne
Eulalia “Sister” Bourne, a pioneer schoolteacher, rancher and writer, spent much of her life near Mammoth. She taught in rural Arizona schools from 1914 to 1957, and she learned Spanish so she could reach her students at a time when state law forbade Spanish in school. In Redington she started The Little Cowpuncher, a mimeographed newspaper her students wrote and illustrated, and it moved with her from school to school for 11 years; today it’s seen as a unique record of ranch and school life in southern Arizona, and the University of Arizona keeps it in a digital archive. She homesteaded in Peppersauce Canyon near San Manuel, then in 1951 moved to the GF Bar Ranch on Copper Creek, east of Mammoth, where she died in 1984 at 91. She wrote three books, among them Woman in Levi’s, and she was named to the Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame in 1987 and the National Cowgirl Museum Hall of Fame in 1996.
Back in town, the post office, the library and the community center are all printed, and so are Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church and the softball field park. North Mammoth and Fordville have their places on the sheet as well, along with Red Hill, Signal Peak and the Black Hills.
This Mammoth 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 Mammoth home, from North Mammoth out to Fordville, 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 Mammoth map.
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