Olga, Arizona
Olga, Arizona | |
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  Olga Location within the state of Arizona  Olga Olga (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 32°17′59″N 109°21′33″W / 32.29972°N 109.35917°WCoordinates: 32°17′59″N 109°21′33″W / 32.29972°N 109.35917°W ⧼validator-fatal-error⧽ | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| County | Cochise |
| Elevation | 3,632 ft (1,107 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain (MST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (MST) |
| Area code(s) | 520 |
| FIPS code | 04-51110 |
| GNIS feature ID | 24545 |
Olga is a locale and former railroad station in Cochise County, Arizona.[2] It has an estimated elevation of 3,632 feet (1,107 m) above sea level.[1]
History[edit]
Olga was a railroad station along the Southern Pacific's route through Cochise County and eastern Arizona constructed in 1880, east of Bowie and west of San Simon.[3] Olga was the site of a railroad work camp during the building of the line.[4] Once a junction was made in March 1881 with eastern rails in Deming, New Mexico, the Olga station was part of the second transcontinental rail route across the United States.[5]
Olga was at one time a populated place, to the extent that the rail station contained a section house where a section foreman lived.[6]
In the early 20th century, marble quarrying was a conducted south of Olga, and the marble was shipped out of the Olga station.[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Feature Detail Report for: Olga". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
- ↑ "Olga (in Cochise County, AZ) Populated Place Profile". AZ Hometown Locator. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
- ↑ Soil Survey of the San Simon Area Arizona, p. 585 (1924)
- ↑ Burns, Allen. A Social and Educational History of Willcox, Arizona, in Rural America: A Social and Educational History of Ten Communities, Vol. 1, p. 150 (1975)
- ↑ (12 March 1881). Completion of the New Trans-Continental Route, Pacific Rural Press
- ↑ Bowie News and Letters from Friends, Bowie Alumni Newsletter (April 2008), p.3.
- ↑ List of Quarries in Arizona, Retrieved 30 September 2020 (one of many sources)
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