Reymert

Overview

A silver camp in a desert wash

Reymert sits in a rocky wash in the Mineral Mountain country southwest of Superior, between Picketpost Mountain and the desert around Florence. The Reymert Mine was claimed in 1876 and produced more than $700,000 in silver, by one account. Its namesake, James DeNoon Reymert, edited the Pinal Drill newspaper at nearby Pinal and incorporated a mining company in 1885. He also founded DeNoon, a milling town about two miles from the mine, which had a post office for barely a year.

Reymert's post office opened in June 1890, and the census that year counted 254 people. Estimates of the town at its height run from about 100 to 5,000, and the sources don't settle it. A report to stockholders in 1891 describes an assay house, stables, a blacksmith, boarding houses and a Wells Fargo express office. The mill started with five stamps and grew to twenty.

The post office closed in 1898, but the mine was worked on and off into the 1950s, later for manganese as well as silver. In the late 1970s a Phoenix company bulldozed the remaining buildings. Stone foundations, two processing kilns and the tall foundations of the mill and smelter are still there, along a wash that 4x4 drivers still use.

Timeline

From silver claim to bulldozer

1. Dec 1, 1876The Reymert Mine claim is staked.
2. 1885The J. D. Reymert Mining Company is incorporated in California and Arizona.
3. 1889James DeNoon Reymert, editor of the Pinal Drill newspaper at nearby Pinal, founds DeNoon, a milling town about two miles from the mine.
4. Mar 19, 1890DeNoon gets a post office. It closes on April 1, 1891.
5. Jun 6, 1890Reymert's own post office opens. The census that year counts 254 people.
6. Mar 14, 1891Reymert reports to stockholders on an assay house, stables, a blacksmith, boarding houses and a Wells, Fargo & Co. express office. A flood has wrecked the adobe pump house and stopped work until repairs are made.
7. May 27, 1898The post office closes.
8. To the 1950sThe mine is worked on and off, first for silver and later for silver and manganese, by Reymert's company and then by lessees.
9. 1964Arizona Republic obituaries still mention people living at Reymert, according to a 1998 history.
10. Late 1970sA Phoenix company bulldozes what's left of the town.
11. 1998A visitor finds stone foundations along half a mile of the canyon, and mill and smelter foundations more than 20 feet tall.
12. Jul 2023The newest trip report we found: off-road drivers find the 4x4 trail to the mine in good shape, apart from a narrow rocky squeeze near the end.

What's left

Foundations along the wash

The buildings are gone, but a 1998 visit found foundations stretching more than half a mile along the canyon. The mill and smelter foundations stand over 20 feet tall, and the smelter's bricks were made by the Pacific Brick Company in California and hauled in. Wikipedia notes the remains of two processing kilns and a number of stacked stone foundations. The off-road guide to the trail adds a mining shack and a rocky canyon with petroglyphs.

The current USGS topo map puts the site where Reymert Road climbs a wash below a spring. The historic maps below fill in more. The Florence sheet dated 1900 draws Reymert as a cluster of buildings on a road climbing the canyon toward Picketpost Mountain. The 1958 sheet marks the townsite "Ruins", with the Reymert Mine (silver) to the north-northeast and the Woodpecker and Ajax mines to the south. The 1964 and 2004 sheets print "Reymert (Site)" beside the spring, with prospects along the road.

• Stone foundations
• Mill and smelter foundations
• Two processing kilns
• Mining shack
• Petroglyphs in the canyon

Historic maps

Reymert on USGS maps, 1900–2004

Crops from the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, centered on the townsite. Each sheet shows what surveyors mapped that year; compare them with today's topo and aerial on this page.

19001:125,00019581:250,00019641:24,00019941:100,00020041:24,000

Map & directions

Getting there

Superior is the closest town. The route below was computed from OpenStreetMap and hasn't been driven by us. It comes in from the east on Forest Service roads and ends where the mapped tracks run out, about a mile east of the townsite. The established 4x4 route comes in from the west on Mineral Mountain Road and Reymert Road; the road notes describe it.

Base map: USGS The National Map (public domain). Routes: OSRM on © OpenStreetMap contributors data (ODbL), computed October 2026. Times assume dry roads.

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Other sites near Reymert

Straight-line distance from the townsite to other mapped sites in our Arizona index.

• De Noon0.0 mi NE · Pinal
• Pinal5.2 mi NE · Pinal
• Pinal City5.2 mi NE · Pinal
• Cochran9.0 mi SE · Pinal
• Silver King Mine9.8 mi NE · Pinal
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• Sonora13.1 mi E · Pinal

Sources

Sources and credits

1. ghosttowns.com, "Reymert" and "DeNoon": fact sheet fields (roads, legal description, climate, best time, remains, post office dates).
2. Wikipedia, "Reymert, Arizona", retrieved October 2026: coordinates and elevation (GNIS), founder, silver and manganese mining into the 1950s, the 1970s bulldozing, kilns and foundations.
3. Wikipedia, "DeNoon, Arizona", retrieved October 2026: DeNoon's founding in 1889 and its distance from the mine.
4. azghosttowns.com, "Reymert" (William M. Mogan, last visited March 1998): claim date, mining company, production, mill, 1890 census, the 1891 stockholders' report, 1964 obituaries, remains, BLM land, road.
5. Funtreks, "Reymert Mine" (trail #55), with trail updates from 2019 to July 2023: length, rating, vehicles, State Trust Land permit, closed gates, petroglyphs.
6. TrailsOffroad, "Reymert Mine": land manager (BLM Tucson Field Office), kilns and foundations.
7. Elevation: USGS 3D Elevation Program point query (GNIS lists 2,802 ft). Routes: OSRM on OpenStreetMap data, October 2026. Not field-checked. Status checked against the sources above on October 19, 2026.

Photo and map credits

• The 1900 USGS Florence sheet, with Reymert on a road climbing the canyon: U.S. Geological Survey, USGS catalog, Public domain
• Area base map, topo and aerial imagery: USGS The National Map (public domain).
• Historic maps: USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (public domain): Florence 1900, 1:125,000; Mesa 1958, 1:250,000; Mineral Mtn 1964, 1:24,000; Mesa 1994, 1:100,000; Mineral Mountain 2004, 1:24,000.