Dennison, Arizona

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Dennison, Arizona
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Dennison, Arizona
Dennison, Arizona (the United States)
Coordinates: 35°05′12″N110°54′18″W / 35.08667°N 110.90500°W / 35.08667; -110.90500 Coordinates: 35°05′12″N110°54′18″W / 35.08667°N 110.90500°W / 35.08667; -110.90500
Country United States
State Arizona
County Coconino
Elevation
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5,013 ft (1,528 m)
Time zone UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-7 (MST)
Area code 928
FIPS code 04-18585
GNIS feature ID 24398

Dennison was a stop on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway between Canyon Diablo, and Winslow, Arizona, United States, in Coconino County. [2] Formerly in Yavapai County, [3] it came to be in Coconino County upon the latter's creation in 1891. [4] Dennison was named for a railroad roadmaster named Denny. [5]

Contents

It has an estimated elevation of 5,013 feet (1,528 m) above sea level. [1] [6] A short distance west of Dennison siding, the Kaibab Limestone that is predominant in the western part of the state first rises above the limestone Moenkopi Formation found to the east. [7]

In 1910, the railroad was double-tracked from Winslow, Arizona, to a point two miles west of Dennison. [8]

By 1972, Dennison was only a phone station on the railroad line. At that time, the name had fallen out of public use, and local landowners successfully petitioned the county to change the name of Dennison Road, exit 239 on Interstate 40, to Red Gap Ranch Road and Meteor City Road. [9]

Incidents

On 1 September 1891 two men were killed on the line between Dennison and Winslow when a wagon carrying blasting powder on a freight train exploded. [10]

On 28 March 1899, trackwalker George Smiley shot and killed Dennison section foreman, Paul McSweeney, following a dispute over unpaid wages. [11] Smiley was executed on 8 January the following year. [12]

On 1 July 1899 a light engine ran into the back of a freight train in the siding at Dennison, killing a brakeman and an engineer. [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Feature Detail Report for: Dennison". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Map of the Twelfth Twenty Five Miles of the Western Division Atlantic and Pacific Rail Road from the 276th to the 300th Mile Twelfth Land Grant Section., Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company, 1 December 1881
  3. ↑ Arizona. Tusyan Sheet 1:250000, USGS, 1886
  4. ↑ "County Division". The St. Johns Herald. 21 February 1889.
  5. ↑ Newton, Charles H. (1980). Place Names in Arizona. Primer Printers. p. 16. ISBN   9780935810240.
  6. ↑ William Bowie & H.G. Avers (1914). "Table of Elevations at Railroad Stations". Fourth General Adjustment of the Precise Level Net in the United States and the Resulting Standard Elevations. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. p. 161.
  7. ↑ N. H. Barton; et al. (1915), United States Geological Survey, Bulletin 613, Guidebookof the Western United States: The Santa Fe Route With a Side Trip to the Grand Canyon (PDF), Department of the Interior, p. 112
  8. ↑ "Double Tracking Has Commenced". Holbrook Argus. February 8, 1910.
  9. ↑ "No. 72-11 Resolution". Arizona Daily Sun. May 13, 1972. p. 9.
  10. ↑ "Two Men Killed". The Coconino Sun. 5 Sep 1891. p. 2.
  11. ↑ "Arizona Day By Day". Arizona Republic. 3 Apr 1899. p. 3.
  12. ↑ "George Smiley Executed". Holbrook Argus. 13 Jan 1900. p. 5.
  13. ↑ "Wreck at Dennison". Las Vegas Daily Optic. 31 July 1899. p. 1.
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