Piedmont, Arizona

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Piedmont, Arizona
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Piedmont, Arizona
Location in the state of Arizona
Coordinates: 34°14′20″N112°51′52″W / 34.23889°N 112.86444°W / 34.23889; -112.86444 Coordinates: 34°14′20″N112°51′52″W / 34.23889°N 112.86444°W / 34.23889; -112.86444
Country United States
State Arizona
County Yavapai
Elevation
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3,340 ft (1,018 m)
Time zone UTC-7 (MST (no DST))
Area code 928

Piedmont is a ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. It was located between the Weaver Mountains and the Date Creek Mountains of central-west Arizona, on Date Creek Road (Yavapai Route 62). It is near the ghost towns of Congress and Hillside. All that remains of the town is the sign, along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

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In fiction

Michael Crichton's novel The Andromeda Strain is partially set in a town called Piedmont, Arizona, the population of which is almost entirely killed by an extraterrestrial virus. However, it is unlikely that Crichton's Piedmont is related to the real Piedmont in any way, as the book places the town south of Las Vegas, east of San Bernardino and west of Phoenix, and also at a spot with "no important area of habitation for a radius of nearly one hundred and twelve miles", which would place it roughly 40 miles (64 km) east of Lake Havasu in a barren mountain area.[ citation needed ]

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