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We would like to provide the residents of  Superior  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Superior Home page. The Superior Home page provides as much information as possible on Superior. Knowing Superior’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Superior’s Home page, you will also find Superior’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Superior has a population of 3120. 46.9% of Superior’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.1 are female. 35.9% of Superior is married and 72.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $86,309, and the average rent is $693. Household median income in Superior is $33,036, and the individual median income is $21,849. Superior’s Ethnic is the following: White(71.1%), Hispanic(65.2%), Multiple(13.5%), Other(10.3%), Asian(4%), Native(1.1%).


Like nearby Globe, Ray, and Clifton, Arizona, Superior was once part of a huge Apache reservation, but after silver and copper deposits were discovered, those areas were withdrawn from the reservation and returned to the public domain.In 1872, at the height of the American Indian Wars, a band of raiding Apache horsemen were ambushed by a United States Cavalry force from Picket Post Mountain.


After losing 50 men, the Apache retreated up the mountain later named "Apache Leap". According to local legend, the remaining Apache accepted defeat and leapt to their death rather than being captured by the cavalry, thus giving the mountain its name.Superior was originally called Queen, then Hastings, and under the latter name was platted in 1900.Queen had a population of around 100 circa 1880.


There was a general store, 2 hotels, numerous saloons, and a post office. The Queen post office closed Sept. 15, 1881.The Superior townsite was laid out in 1902, and named after the Lake Superior and Arizona Copper Company (LS&A). The Superior post office opened on December 29, 1902.By 1950, before the United States Supreme Court's Brown v.


Board of Education decision, schools in Superior segregated Anglo and Mexican students.


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