Mammoth, Arizona
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Mammoth is a town in Pinal County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 1,076.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
History
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Mammoth was founded around 1872 as Mammoth Camp to serve the nearby Mammoth Mine. Until 2003 when it closed, Mammoth served as a bedroom community for the nearby San Manuel Mine.Template:Citation needed
The nearby ghost town of Copper Creek is a popular local attraction.
Minerals from the old Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine are found in all major mineral collections. Tiger, Arizona was the townsite at the Tiger Mine and nothing remains of this ghost town.
In November 2014, Mammoth was the subject of a fictional horror tale on the Reddit subreddit "r/nosleep" in which a contagious disease wiped out the population. Naïve users believed and spread the story, somewhat akin to the 1938 War of the Worlds panic. The town was inundated with phone calls from people trying to ascertain what was happening.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Geography
[edit]According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of Template:Convert, all land.
Climate
[edit]According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Mammoth has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps.<ref>Climate Summary for Mammoth, Arizona</ref>
Demographics
[edit]At the 2000 census, there were 1,762 people, 562 households, and 440 families in the town. The population density was Template:Convert. There were 697 housing units at an average density of Template:Convert. The racial makeup of the town was 61.9% White, 0.1% Black or African American, 1.5% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 31.9% from other races, and 4.0% from two or more races while 73.0% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.<ref name="GR2">Template:Cite web</ref> Of the 562 households, 39.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.0% were married couples living together, 16.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.7% were non-families. Another 18.5% of households had only one person and 9.8% had one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 3.14 and the average family size was 3.54.
The age distribution was 33.5% under the age of 18, 8.9% from the age of 18 to 24, 25.8% from the age of 25 to 44, 20.1% from the age of 45 to 64, and 11.6% from the age of 65 or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.3 males.
The median household income was $29,861 and the median family income was $32,661. Males had a median income of $32,768 versus $19,028 for females. The per capita income for the town was $9,878. About 23.8% of families and 28.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 39.4% of those under the age of 18 and 10.6% of those aged 65 or over.
Notable person
[edit]Eulalia "Sister" Bourne, who was an Arizona pioneer, schoolteacher and author, lived much of her life in the vicinity of Mammoth at her homestead in Peppersauce Canyon near San Manuel and later at her ranch on Copper Creek where she died in 1984.