Paradise, Arizona

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Paradise is a former mining town in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, surrounded by National Forest land. It is located 5.5 miles west (up-mountain) from Portal at latitude 31.56ºN, longitude 109.13ºW, and altitude 5,460 feet. During its short but lively heyday, the town had bars, a barber shop, mercantile stores, hotels, a jail, and a red-light district. Almost everyone left when the mines failed, pulling down their homes and businesses and taking the lumber with them.

In 1901 the Chiricahua Development Company located a vein of ore here. A post office was established October 23, 1901 and discontinued September 30, 1943.[1]

There are significant temperature extremes in Paradise.

The controversial computer game Postal² and its cinematic counterpart are both set in a fictionalized version of Paradise.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Granger, Byrd H. (1970) Arizona Place Names, Tucson: University of Arizona Press
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  • Alden Hayes, A Portal to Paradise, University of Arizona Press (1999), ISBN 0816521441
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