Morenci
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census-designated place in Greenlee County, Arizona, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Greenlee
- Total
- 0.93 sq mi (2.40 km )
- Land
- 0.90 sq mi (2.34 km )
- Water
- 0.023 sq mi (0.06 km )
- Elevation
- 4,157 ft (1,267 m)
- Density
- 2,240.9/sq mi (865.22/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-7 ( MST (no DST ))
- Fips code
- 04-47610
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Morenci
- Population
- 2028
- Area
- 2.546248
- Elevation
- 1447
- Official website
- www.morencitown.com
- Image
- PostcardMorenciAZAerialViewCirca1910.jpg
- Households
- 519
- Dialing code
- 928
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- Commons category
- Morenci, Arizona
- postal code
- 85540
- water as percent of area
- 2.2323
- water area
- 0.056839
- per capita income
- 33375
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Article
Morenci is a census-designated place (CDP) and company town in Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, and was founded by the Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona. The population was 2,000 at the 2000 census and 1,489 at the 2010 census. The biggest employer in Morenci (and in nearby Clifton) and the owner of the town is Freeport-McMoRan, the owner of the Morenci Mine, the largest copper mining operation in North America, and one of the largest copper mines in the world. The town was a site of the Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983. The large open-pit mine is north of the town.
Geography