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Brigham City, Arizona

Ghost town in Navajo County

Field	Value
name	Brigham City
settlement_type	Ghost town
image_skyline	Brigham City-1876-5.jpg
pushpin_map	Arizona
pushpin_label_position	right
pushpin_mapsize	250
map_caption	Location in the state of Arizona
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Arizona
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Navajo
established_title	Founded
established_date	1876
extinct_title	Abandoned
extinct_date	1881
named_for	Brigham Young
unit_pref	US
elevation_footnotes
elevation_ft	4895
elevation_m	1492
timezone	MST (no DST)
utc_offset	-7
coordinates
name	Brigham City
embed	yes
nearest_city	Winslow, Arizona
locmapin	Arizona#USA
built	1876
added	June 9, 1978
area	160 acre
refnum	78000558

Brigham City is a ghost town in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. Founded by member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints near the present city of Winslow in 1876, it was one and one-half miles north of Winslow's current city center, along the Little Colorado River. It was organized as a Latter-Day Saints ward in 1878, but by 1881 it had been abandoned.

Twenty Mormon families and fifteen bachelors from Salt Lake City settled the area, and built homes inside protective walls originally measuring 200 ft long and 7 ft high. Flash flooding that washed away the dams and irrigation systems led to crop failures and caused the abandonment of the town by 1881.

The US Census listed its population as 191 in 1880.

Brigham City was one of four Little Colorado River colonies. The other colonies were Joseph City, Sunset, and Obed. Joseph City is the only remaining colony.

Brigham City was added to the National Register of Historic Places as of June 9, 1978, and the remnants are currently undergoing restoration. Only one of the communities' buildings and portions of the encircling wall remain.

Archaeological excavations have been carried out at the location of the grist mill, the pottery, and other features

Demographics

Brigham City appeared in the U.S. Census in 1880, with a population of 191. The original townsite has since been annexed into the city of Winslow and is now a historic site.

References

{{gnis. 1828925. Brigham City (historical)
{{NRISref. 2009a
[[Andrew Jenson]]. ''Encyclopedic History of the Church''. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941). p. 88.
"Winslow Chamber of Commerce – Visiting Winslow". Winslowarizona.org.
"Historic Sites – Brigham City". Arizona Heritage Traveler.
Moffat, Riley. (1996). "Population History of Western U.S. Cities and Towns, 1850–1990". Scarecrow Press, Inc..
Tanner, George S and J Morris Richards, ''Colonization on the Little Colorado: The Joseph City Region'' (Flagstaff, Arizona: 1977) xiii.
Tanner, George S and J Morris Richards, ''Colonization on the Little Colorado: The Joseph City Region'' (Flagstaff, Arizona: 1977) 21, 32, 34.
"NPGallery Digital Asset Management System". Nps.gov.
Stone, Lyle M. and Gerald A. Doyle & Assoc. 1980 "A Research Report and Restoration Considerations for the Interpretive Development of Historic Resources at Brigham City, A. T. for the City of Winslow, Arizona." ARS, Tempe and Gerald A. Doyle & Associates, Phoenix.
Ferg, Alan 1992 "1991 AAS Excavations at Brigham City and Plans for 1992." ''The Petroglyph'' (Arizona Archaeological Society) 28(3):14–15 and 2005 "Brother Behrman’s Pottery." ''Archaeology Southwest'' 19(2):7.
(1880). "Population of Civil Divisions less than counties, in the aggregate, at the Censuses of 1880 and 1870".
(3 May 2019). "Abandoned in 1881, the Mormon Ghost Town of Brigham City in Arizona Only Lasted 5 Years".

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