Mineral Park's post office was established December 31, 1872 and discontinued June 15, 1912. Mineral Park was layed out in 1871 and became the biggest settlement in Mohave county, eventually becoming the county seat. The Mohave County Miner was the newspaper for the seven hundred people who lived here. There were doctors, lawyers, blacksmiths, a hotel, restaurant, carpenters and more. Today, there are many ruins still left under the protection of a mining company.-GT

Mineral Park is accessible from mile 59 on US 93, where one paved road will bring you 4 miles to Mineral Park. Unfortunately is not possible to come on the mine property but is still possible to find five ruins of the original town outside mine area. Mineral Park is grounded in 1871 and was in a short period the capitol town of Mohave County when they take over the title from the town Cerbat in 1873, and they served mines and ranches in the area. The town had everything what was necessary for mining: assay office, five smelters, saloons, stores, post office that opened on December 31, 1872, restau-rant, hotel, doctors, two stations and weekly news paper "The Moha-ve Coun-ty Mi-ner". The reason for the progress was, that "At-lan-tic & Paci-fic railroad" in 1883 finished building the rails 20 miles to the south, and that shorted the transport and the transport cost. Unfortunately brought the railroad on the same time the dead to Mineral Park because that same railroad was passing trough railroad station Kingman witch was growing rapidly and in 1887 had more citizens and become the capitol of Mohave County. Miners started to close after year 1887 and post office closed on June 15, 1912. Mineral Park had all, but died. -Bobby Zlatevski

Mineral Park
Courtesy Dolores Steele

Mineral Park
Courtesy Dolores Steele