CHAPARRAL

NAME: Chaparral
COUNTY: Yavapai
ROADS: 4WD
LEGAL INFO: T13N, R1W
CLIMATE: Mild winter, warm summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime
COMMENTS: Not far from the Ironite factory. Stay clear of current mining operations.
REMAINS: Mines and rubble is all that is left.

Chaparral's post office was established May 24, 1894 and was discontinued December 31, 1917. There were about twenty businesses lining the streets in Chaparral all under the control of Sheriff Mike Enright. Chaparral owed its existence to the Little Jessie and McCabe mines nearby. The rise of McCabe saw the fall of Chaparral and the post office finally closed in 1917. Today, nothing remains but rubble and the occasional hole in the ground.


Chaparral
Courtesy Kurt Wenner


A brick at Chaparral

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