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Jackrabbit, Arizona

human settlement in Arizona, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ28222329 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jackrabbit was an early 20th century mining community in Pinal County, Arizona, USA, just north of the border of Pima County. It has an estimated elevation of 1,542 feet (470 m) above sea level.

The Jackrabbit area is located at the northern end of the Slate Mountains and includes the

Jackrabbit, Turning Point, and the Desert Queen Mines. Mining activity peaked in 1910 when human settlement in the area was concentrated in the community of Jackrabbit. By 1960, there was no active mining in the area, few remains of any building or equipment, and no human habitation.

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The public source identifies “Jackrabbit, Arizona” as human settlement in Arizona, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jackrabbit, Arizona and human.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1910, 1960—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jackrabbit, Arizona and human providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28222329. Authority coordinates are 32.605, -111.896. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910 and 1960.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jackrabbit, Arizona” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.