Greenlee County, Arizona
Greenlee County · Clifton is the seat · Duncan is a town · Morenci is the mine, not a second county
Clifton is the seat. Duncan is not the hall. Morenci is the mine town, not a second county.
Greenlee County, Arizona, was erected 1909 from Graham County and named for Mason Greenlee, a Clifton-area pioneer. Clifton is the seat. Duncan is an incorporated town. Duncan is not the county hall. Morenci is a census-designated place and the large copper-mine community — it is not a second county and not the seat. York, Franklin, and Sheldon are places in this county — they are not the hall. This is not Greenlee County somewhere else; there is one. Safford is Graham. St. Johns is Apache. The New Mexico line is the east wall — Catron, Grant, and Hidalgo counties in New Mexico are another state. Phoenix is Maricopa and the capital. Tucson is Pima, later.
Places include Clifton, Morenci, Duncan, York, and Franklin. 2020 census: 9,563 — least populous Arizona county. The Morenci mine is among the largest copper operations in North America; the mine is industry. It is not this county government. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — canyon remainder patrol and the Clifton house this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Greenlee County.
A three-member Board at 253 Fifth Street. Clifton is the hall.
Greenlee is a three-member Board of Supervisors, one supervisor per district, under A.R.S. § 11-211. There is no elected County Executive. County government lists at 253 Fifth Street, Clifton, AZ 85533 (greenlee.az.gov). They fund roads, the jail, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Clifton Town Council is a town body. Duncan Town Council is a town body. Neither is this Board.
Greenlee County Superior Court lists at 223 Fifth Street, Clifton, AZ 85533 (azcourts.gov). County contact pages also print 253 Fifth Street for several offices — confirm the live court door before you drive. Justice Court has a Clifton precinct and a Duncan precinct. The Duncan precinct is a limited-jurisdiction court. It is not the county hall.
The Sheriff is four years, Article 12 § 3, beginning 1 January after election. Last regular Tuesday, 5 November 2024. Next regular Tuesday, 7 November 2028. The 2026 gubernatorial table is not this oval. County offices often post Monday–Thursday hours; Superior Court lists Monday–Friday. Confirm on greenlee.az.gov.
The Coronado Trail, the Morenci pit, the New Mexico line.
U.S. 191 is the spine — the Coronado Trail north toward Alpine, the mine road through Morenci, the descent into Clifton’s canyon. The San Francisco River / Chase Creek cuts the seat. Graham is west — Safford is that hall. Apache is north. New Mexico is east. Staff who paste Duncan onto Fifth Street as the hall, or treat Morenci as a second county, or file “Safford as this seat,” or drop a New Mexico town onto Clifton, are on the wrong county.
How a Clifton public finds Fifth Street and Coronado Boulevard
Board / county government: 253 Fifth Street. Superior Court / Clerk: 223 Fifth Street (confirm). Sheriff: 824 South Coronado Boulevard, Clifton, AZ 85533 (P.O. Box 998). Jail listings also print 800 South Coronado Boulevard — adjacent campus; confirm the live booking door on greenlee.az.gov before you drive. A student who only knows a Duncan photograph as the hall, or a pit overlook as the courthouse, has not found this canyon.
This Sheriff still holds the Clifton jail. The mine is not this badge.
Crime in unincorporated Greenlee — Morenci, York, Franklin, the Coronado Trail remainder — is this Sheriff. Crime in Clifton is often Clifton Police where that department answers. Crime in Duncan is often Duncan municipal. This Sheriff is not Clifton PD. A.R.S. § 11-441(A)(5) still puts the county jail on this badge. Jail listings put the house on Coronado Boulevard in Clifton. That house is this badge’s shop. It is not a mine-security office. It is not ADC.
Do not paste a state prison onto Coronado. There is no ADC complex that replaces this jailer in Clifton. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Duncan Town Hall, to a New Mexico sheriff, or to Safford. Civil process and court security at Fifth Street are the Sheriff. Remedy for Clifton Police is the Town. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when U.S. 191 ices on the Coronado Trail is this count first.
Care without inventing the pit as this county jailer
A peace order served in unincorporated York. A transport from Coronado Boulevard to Fifth Street without becoming Clifton PD. Do not invent a church. Do not invent the Morenci pit as this oval. The pit is industry. This Sheriff is county.
Clifton snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Clifton · Largest community: Morenci (mine CDP, not the hall) · Duncan: town, not the hall
- Government: three district Supervisors · 253 Fifth Street · Superior Court 223 Fifth Street
- Sheriff: four years · Art. 12 § 3 · last regular 5 November 2024 · next regular 7 November 2028 · remainder patrol and detention this Sheriff still holds · jail on Coronado Boulevard
- Neighbors: Apache · Graham (Safford) · New Mexico (Catron / Grant / Hidalgo)
- Not Duncan as this hall · Not Morenci as a second county · Not Clifton PD as this Sheriff · Not the mine as this jailer
What Greenlee County, Arizona, is not
- Not Duncan as the hall. Not Morenci as a second county. Not a Freeport trademark as this government.
- Not Graham. Not Safford as this hall. Not Apache. Not St. Johns as this hall.
- Not New Mexico. Not Catron County. Not Silver City as this seat.
- Not Clifton Police as this Sheriff. Not DPS as this oval.
- Not a campaign flyer.