About Cottonwood, Arizona

Cottonwood is a city of 12,029 people in Yavapai County, on the Verde River. Early travelers stopped at a grove of cottonwoods near the river to camp and let their horses rest before the climb into the mountains, and that stopping place grew into the center of town. Families from the Midwest were coming in by 1879, and Charles D. Willard named the settlement for a ring of sixteen big cottonwoods roughly a quarter mile from the Verde.

A post office opened in 1885, and in 1908 two settlers cleared the way for Main Street by hauling through the brush with a team of mules. In 1917 James Douglas Jr. founded Clemenceau nearby as a company town for the smelter that served his United Verde Extension mine at Jerome. The smelter shut down in 1936 and many jobs went with it. Cottonwood incorporated in 1960, and Clemenceau was then made part of the city.

  • Renamed for a French premierDouglas's company town was first called Verde, after the mine. In 1920 it took the name of Georges Clemenceau, who led France in World War I and was a personal friend of Douglas, partly so mail and travelers wouldn't mix it up with Camp Verde. Clemenceau later gave the town a vase made by Ernest Chaplet, a potter from France.
  • A school from 1924 to 1986Clemenceau School taught the valley's children for more than sixty years. Today the Clemenceau Heritage Museum fills most of the building and the bank and post office built in 1918, with exhibits on Verde Valley mining, ranching and farming. A model railroad that really runs traces the nine lines that served the region in years past.
  • John Wayne slept hereThe Cottonwood Hotel opened in 1917 and hosted Mae West, and in 1946 John Wayne and Gail Russell stayed there while filming Angel and the Badman. The hotel belongs to the Cottonwood Commercial Historic District, which covers North Main Street from number 712 to number 1124 and joined the National Register in 2000.
  • The oldest house in townThe Mary Willard House, on North Main Street, is listed as the oldest house in Cottonwood. Its bricks are the first known to have been made anywhere in the upper Verde Valley.
  • Three high schools in oneMingus Union High School brought together three older high schools in the valley. The Jerome and Clarkdale schools merged first, Cottonwood High School joined them in 1958, and in 1972 the school moved to Cottonwood.

Find your street

Names on the Cottonwood map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Streets and roads61

  • Verde St
  • W Yuma St
  • Mescal Spur Rd
  • W Cochise St
  • Geary Heights Dr
  • Groseta Ranch Rd
  • Crystal Peak Dr
  • Skyline Ave
  • Airport Rd
  • N Willard Rd
  • Kindra Heights Rd
  • Alamos Dr
  • Mabery Ranch Rd
  • Ranch Rd
  • Franquero Ln
  • Yavapai St
  • Mingus Ave
  • S Paula St
  • Melody Ln
  • Sky Dr
  • W Cottonwood St
  • W Mingus Ave
  • Calvary Way
  • Gold Rush Ln
  • Cecilias Ln
  • E Willard St
  • Jack Way
  • Fr 493
  • E Cherry St
  • E Villa
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  • Skyline Dr
  • Verde Dr
  • E Elm St
  • Fourth Ave
  • Hobo Cir
  • Boulder Ln
  • Mongini Dr
  • Zalesky Rd
  • S Tanager Ln
  • S Rocking Chair Rd
  • Boban Ln
  • Willow Tree Ln
  • Yorba Ln
  • River Rd
  • Kelli Ln
  • E Busich Ln
  • Chuckwalla Rd
  • Cherry Hills Way
  • Brook Hollow Dr
  • Rocky Knolls Rd
  • E Diamondback Dr
  • Jewel Dr
  • Quail Springs Ranch Rd
  • Rainbow Rd
  • Ogden Ranch Rd
  • Saguaro Dr
  • Uvx Rd
  • Camp Verde-Bridgeport Hwy
  • S Cottonwood
  • Elementary School Rd
  • Dead Horse Ranch State Park

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