Chloride Arizona Map

About Chloride, Arizona

Chloride is a locality in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. It is a small community with a population of 229. The population density is 58.7 people per km². Chloride is located at 35.4144°N, 114.1994°W. It observes the Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) timezone. ZIP code: 86431.

Chloride stretches across the high desert floor where the arid earth clings to the shadow of Silver Hill. It lies 14.8 miles northwest of New Kingman-Butler, AZ (from New Kingman-Butler, AZ: bearing 317°T), and is situated 17.6 miles north-northwest of Kingman. The Tennessee Wash carves a shallow, gravelly path through the landscape, acting as a quiet artery that collects the sudden, fleeting runoff of monsoon storms. To the north, the terrain breaks toward the distant ruggedness of North Fall Canyon, while the vast expanse of State Trust Land provides a buffer of uncultivated brush and pale, sun-bleached rock. In the late afternoon, the light turns a bruised, metallic gold, casting long silhouettes of creosote and ocotillo across the basin, softening the harsh edges of a land that seems to hold its breath against the heat.

Chloride bears the weight of its nineteenth-century mining origins, where the earth was once punctured in search of silver, leaving behind a scattering of rusted machinery and weathered wood that refuses to surrender to the dust. The local economy has long since shifted away from the frantic pace of the shafts, settling into a slow, deliberate rhythm defined by those who favor a life lived apart from the sprawl of the modern world. Murals painted on the sides of older structures recall the era of the prospector, yet the present character of Chloride is shaped by a quiet independence and an appreciation for the silence that descends when the wind dies down. Travelers passing through on their way toward the expanse of Lake Mohave often find themselves lingering, caught by the peculiar, stillness that defines a place where the history is as dry and enduring as the soil itself.

About This Chloride Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Chloride, Arizona. Coordinates: 35.414438, -114.199401. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Chloride includes the ZIP code (86431), telephone area code (928), county seat of Mohave County (Kingman), and school district assignment (Kingman Unified School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.