Miami’s name in Western Apache is Goshtłʼish Tú, and its page calls it a classic Western copper boomtown. This map prints the Keystone Avenue Bridge and the Keystone Stairs, the Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum, the Miami Memorial Library, the Historic Miami YMCA and Hostetler Pool, with Bloody Tanks Wash giving shape to the land.
Miami is a town in Gila County, next door to Globe.
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 Keystone Avenue Bridge was confirmed against the National Park Service and the National Register of Historic Places. Miami sits on the northeastern slope of the Pinal Mountains, with the Tonto National Forest around it on every side but the east, and 1,541 people lived here at the 2020 census.
A copper town
Miami, Globe and the unincorporated places around them, including Inspiration, Claypool and Central Heights-Midland City, are known together as Globe-Miami. Mining here began in 1911 as the Inspiration mine, and in 1915 it started up what the town’s page calls the nation’s first froth flotation copper concentrator for sulfide minerals. Inspiration was among the first to use vat leaching, in 1926, and copper was mined underground until after World War II, when open-pit mining began. Freeport-McMoRan owns the Miami mine today. Copper mining there was suspended in September 2015, while the smelter and the rod plant kept running, and in 2017 more than 740 people worked there. The town’s old downtown has been partly renovated, and the town runs Copper Mountain Community Transit, a local bus service in Miami and Globe.
Bullion Plaza began as a school. Trost and Trost designed it in the Classical Revival style, it was built in 1923 and taught children until 1994, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, noted for “its association with the history of Mexican Americans and school segregation in Arizona” and as an example of late Neoclassical Revival public architecture in Miami. Today it’s the Bullion Plaza Museum, with exhibits on the cultural, mining and ranching history of the Miami area.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: Canyon Rd, Coplen Ave, Milton Ave, Maquey Rd, Highland Ave, S Lopez Ave, Live Oak St, Camp Rd, Churchhill St, Hilton Ave, Sullivan St, W Live Oak St.
More street names, A to Z
Granite St.
Born in Miami
Romana Acosta Bañuelos was born in Miami in 1925 to a poor family of Mexican immigrants. With $500 in savings she started a tortilla factory in Los Angeles in 1949 and built it into a multimillion-dollar business, and in 1971 President Richard Nixon appointed her Treasurer of the United States, the first Latina in that post. Manuel V. Mendoza, the eldest of 11 children, was born in Miami in 1922. On October 4, 1944, already wounded, he is credited with breaking up a German counterattack on Mount Battaglia in Italy single-handedly, and in his regiment he became known as “The Arizona Kid.” He first received the Distinguished Service Cross, and in 2014 President Barack Obama awarded him the Medal of Honor after a review of Hispanic and Jewish veterans who may have been passed over; his widow accepted it. Rueben Martinez, born in Miami in 1940, became a barber in Santa Ana, California, began selling Latino books in his barbershop, moved them into a bookstore around the corner when they outgrew it, and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004 for “fusing the roles of marketplace and community center to inspire appreciation of literature and preserve Latino literary heritage.”
The town’s page names others too: the actor Jack Elam, the jazz pianist Joe Castro, the Olympic archer Brady Ellison, the politician Alfredo Gutierrez, the ambassador Esteban Edward Torres, and Nancy Gonzales, the first woman of color appointed Provost and Executive Vice President of Arizona State University. The Miami Memorial Library, the Historic Miami YMCA, Hostetler Pool and the Keystone Stairs have their places on the sheet, and Bloody Tanks Wash runs through the land as well.
This Miami 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 Miami 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 Miami map.
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