Jerome Arizona Map

About Jerome, Arizona

Jerome is a locality in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. It is a small community with a population of 464. The population density is 227.9 people per km². Jerome is located at 34.7489°N, 112.1138°W. It observes the Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) timezone. Jerome is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 86331.

Jerome clings to the jagged, tilted flank of Cleopatra Hill, a vertical sprawl of rust-colored stone and weathered wood that seems to defy the very gravity of the earth. It lies 5.9 miles west of Cottonwood, AZ (from Cottonwood, AZ: bearing 277°T), and is situated 7.1 miles west-northwest of Verde. Bitter Creek carves its way through the rugged terrain below, a persistent ribbon of movement in a landscape defined by the deep, shadowed fissures of Hull Canyon. Prescott National Forest wraps the settlement in a dense, quiet embrace, while the distant, hazy silhouette of the Mogollon Rim marks the horizon like a jagged promise of the high country. Above the steep, winding roads, the air carries a thin, sharp clarity, and when the sun begins its descent, the light catches the metallic dust of the earth, turning the entire slope into a glowing ember of copper and ochre.

Jerome emerged from the hard, unforgiving labor of the mines, its history written in the cavernous tunnels that once tunneled deep beneath the foundations of the buildings themselves. Where men once extracted the wealth of the earth to feed a booming industrial hunger, the economy has shifted toward the quiet persistence of art galleries and the slow, deliberate pace of those who favor the mountain air. A hiker might spend the morning tracing the Woodchute Trail, finding the solitude that only the arid, high-altitude woodlands of the Verde Ranger District can provide. In the quiet hours, Jerome retains the phantom echo of its past, a place where the stillness of the canyon floor rises to meet the stubborn, resilient architecture of a site that refused to slide down the mountain when the ore ran dry.

About This Jerome Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Jerome, Arizona. Coordinates: 34.748911, -112.113772. 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 Jerome includes the ZIP code (86331), telephone area code (928), county seat of Yavapai County (Prescott), and school district assignment (Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary 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.