Fortuna
Fortuna is a ghost town in Yuma County in the U.S. state of Arizona. It was located on the Southern Pacific's Sunset Route. Fortuna was a mining town named for the Fortuna Mine or La Fortuna Mine in the Gila Mountains, discovered about 1893 by Charles Thomas, William Holbert, and others, in 1893 in Arizona Territory.- Type: Locality
- Description: Ghost town in Yuma County
- Also known as: “Fortuna Station”, “Fortuna, Arizona”, “Ming Spur”, and “Nine Mile Station”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fortuna Foothills.
Fortuna Foothills
Town
Fortuna Foothills is a census-designated place in Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The population was 26,265 at the 2010 census. It is part of city of Yuma, Arizona and the Yuma County Metropolitan Statistical Area. Fortuna Foothills is situated 3½ miles southeast of Fortuna.
Fortuna
- Category: ghost town
- Location: Yuma County, Arizona, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.6906° or 32° 41′ 26″ north
Longitude
-114.453° or 114° 27′ 11″ west
Elevation
223 feet (68 metres)
Open location code
8547MGRW+6Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
“Fortuna” goes by many names.
- Turkish: “Fortuna”
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