Icehouse Canyon Arizona Map

About Icehouse Canyon, Arizona

Icehouse Canyon is a locality in Gila County, Arizona, United States. It is a small community with a population of 574. The population density is 45.2 people per km². Icehouse Canyon is located at 33.3461°N, 110.8012°W. It observes the Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) timezone. ZIP code: 85501.

Icehouse Canyon holds a rugged, sun-bleached stillness where the earth’s crust seems to have buckled into a series of parched, steep-walled ravines. It lies 38.4 miles east of Gold Canyon, AZ (from Gold Canyon, AZ: bearing 91°T), and is situated 2.8 miles south-southwest of Globe. The landscape, entirely contained within the protected boundaries of Tonto National Forest, is defined by the sharp transition between scrub-oak thickets and the exposed, mineral-stained geology of the desert floor. A mile to the west, the seasonal flow of Pinal Creek cuts a narrow, dusty path through the terrain, while the deep depression of Kellner Canyon provides a stark, shadow-filled contrast to the high, arid ridges. During the height of the summer, the air grows heavy and motionless, save for the distant, low rumble of monsoon thunderheads that gather over the distant Mogollon Rim, eighty miles to the north, casting a cooling violet bruise across the horizon.

Economic life in Icehouse Canyon remains tethered to the slow, steady rhythms of the land and the long shadow of regional extraction history. Prospectors once scoured these slopes for traces of ore, leaving behind a legacy of abandoned diggings that now serve as quiet reminders of a more frantic era. Today, the pace of existence is governed by the needs of the Globe Ranger District, which manages the surrounding forest and preserves the quietude of these high, dry basins. Five miles away, the stagnant, ochre-colored water of Tailings Pond Number Three stands as a silent witness to the industrial past, a place where the stillness is rarely broken by anything louder than the wind moving through dry brush. Life here demands a certain resilience, as the inhabitants navigate the seasonal shifts of the desert, finding a quiet beauty in the way the light turns pale and gold against the rock as the day wanes.

About This Icehouse Canyon Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Icehouse Canyon, Arizona. Coordinates: 33.34613, -110.801154. 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 Icehouse Canyon includes the ZIP code (85501), telephone area code (480), county seat of Gila County (Globe), and school district assignment (Globe Unified 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.