Apex was a lumber town on the Grand Canyon Railway situated in Coconino County, Arizona.[2]
Apex, Arizona | |
|---|---|
Ghost town | |
Apex, Arizona Location of Apex in Arizona | |
| Coordinates: 35°56′35″N 112°11′09″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| County | Coconino |
| Elevation | 6,594 ft (2,010 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain (MST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (MST) |
| Area code | 928 |
| FIPS code | 04-02970 |
| GNIS feature ID | 25248 |
Men without families would typically live in camps moving with the cutting activity, while families lived in a community at Apex station.[3] The settlement had its own school and telephone service.[3] Many of the workers and their families were from Sweden and Norway.[4][3] Lumber operations by the Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company ended in 1936 and it was abandoned.[3][5]
The school at Apex, along with the neighboring one at the mining town of Anita, were at one time the only racially integrated schools in Arizona.[6]