Piedmont, Arizona

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Piedmont, Arizona
—  Ghost town  —
Piedmont, Arizona
Coordinates: 34°14′20″N 112°51′52″W / 34.23889°N 112.86444°W / 34.23889; -112.86444Coordinates: 34°14′20″N 112°51′52″W / 34.23889°N 112.86444°W / 34.23889; -112.86444
Country	United States
State	Arizona
County	Yavapai
Elevation[1]	3,340 ft (1,018 m)
Time zone	MST (no DST) (UTC-7)

Piedmont is a ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. It was located between the Weaver Mountains and the Date Creek Mountains of Arizona, on Date Creek Road (Yavapai Route 62). It was 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.

In fiction

Michael Crichton's novel, The Andromeda Strain, is partially set in Piedmont, Arizona, the entire population of which is 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 twelfe miles", which would place it very roughly some 40 miles east of Lake Havasu in a barren mountain area.

See also

• List of ghost towns in Arizona

References

External links

• Piedmont at GhostTowns.com

v · d · eMunicipalities and communities of Yavapai County, Arizona County seat: Prescott Cities Cottonwood | Peoria‡ | Prescott | Sedona‡ Towns Camp Verde | Chino Valley | Clarkdale | Dewey-Humboldt | Jerome | Prescott Valley CDPs Ash Fork | Bagdad | Big Park | Black Canyon City | Congress | Cordes Lakes | Cornville | Lake Montezuma | Mayer | Paulden | Peeples Valley | Seligman | Spring Valley | Verde Village | Wilhoit | Williamson | Yarnell Unincorporated communities Cherry | Cleator | Crown King | Drake | Iron Springs | Kirkland | Red Rock | Skull Valley Indian reservation Hualapai Indian Reservation Ghost towns Alexandra | Big Bug | Bradshaw City | Bumble Bee | Catoctin | Cordes | Jerome Junction | Octave | Piedmont | Stanton | Tip Top | Weaver Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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