Santa Claus
Santa Claus is an uninhabited desert place in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. Originating in 1937, Santa Claus lies approximately 14 miles northwest of Kingman, Arizona, along U.S. Route 93 between mile markers 57 and 58, immediately north of Hermit…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: ghost town in Mohave County, Arizona, United States
- Also known as: “Santa Claus, Arizona” and “Santa Claus, AZ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grasshopper Junction and Cerbat.
Grasshopper Junction
Locality
Grasshopper Junction is an unincorporated community in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. Lying four miles west of the town of Chloride, Grasshopper Junction provides access to a lone surviving mining camp along County Road 125. Grasshopper Junction is situated 5 miles northwest of Santa Claus.
Cerbat
Locality
Cerbat is a ghost town just west of the Cerbat Mountains in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. Mining in the area began in the late 1860s and a camp was established soon after. Cerbat is situated 5 miles southeast of Santa Claus.
Chloride
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5 ca.
Chloride is a onetime silver mining camp in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, and is considered the oldest continuously inhabited mining town in the state.
Santa Claus
- Categories: ghost town and locality
- Location: Mohave County, Arizona, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.33666° or 35° 20′ 12″ northLongitude
-114.21635° or 114° 12′ 59″ westElevation
3,392 feet (1,034 metres)Open location code
85778QPM+MFOpenStreetMap ID
node 150976257OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Japanese to Turkish—“Santa Claus” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “サンタクロース”
- Turkish: “Santa Claus”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Santa Claus”. Photo: Todd Huffman, CC BY 2.0.