Fortuna, Arizona

{{Short description|Ghost town in Yuma County}}

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Fortuna is a ghost town in Yuma County in the U.S. state of Arizona. It was located on the Southern Pacific's Sunset Route.

Fortuna was a mining town named for the Fortuna Mine or La Fortuna Mine in the Gila Mountains, discovered about 1893 by Charles Thomas, William Holbert, and others, in 1893 in Arizona Territory.{{GNIS|4761}} It had its own post office from September 1896 that was discontinued in November 30, 1904 being replaced by Blaisdell, Arizona.John and Lillian Theobald, Arizona Territory Post Offices & Postmasters, Arizona Historical Foundation, Phoenix, 1961, p.101{{GNIS|24422}}