Swansea

Swansea is a ghost town in in the U.S. state of . It was settled circa 1909 in what was then the Arizona Territory. It served as a mining town as well as a location for processing and smelting the copper ore taken from the nearby mines.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: ghost town in La Paz County, Arizona, United States
  • Also known as: “Signal”, “Swansea, Arizona”, and “Swansea, AZ”

Swansea

Latitude
34.16945° or 34° 10′ 10″ north
Longitude
-113.84334° or 113° 50′ 36″ west
Elevation
1,283 feet (391 metres)
Open location code
85685594+QM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150970461
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5316488
Wiki­data ID
Q3506438
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Urdu—“Swansea” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “斯旺西”
  • Czech: “Swansea”
  • French: “Swansea”
  • German: “Swansea”
  • Haitian: “Swansea, Arizona”
  • Haitian: “Swansea”
  • Italian: “Swansea”
  • Slovak: “Swansea”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سوانزی، آریزونا”
  • Turkish: “Swansea”
  • Urdu: “سوانسی، ایریزونا”
  • “Swansea”

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