Contention City

Contention City or Contention is a ghost mining town in in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of . It was occupied from the early 1880s through the late 1880s in what was then known as the Arizona Territory.
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  • Hamlet
  • …lies at an elevation of around 3,800 feet (1,160 metres)
  • Description: ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona
  • Also known as
    “Contention”
    “Contention City, Arizona”
    “Contention City, AZ”

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Latitude
31.76838° or 31° 46′ 6″ north
Longitude
-110.20215° or 110° 12′ 8″ west
Open location code
853FQQ9X+94
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Open­Street­Map feature
place = hamlet
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Turkish—“Contention City” goes by many names.
爭奪城Chinese
Contention CityTurkish

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