This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zU.2ADE/513.1 Message Board Post: According to "Arizona Names, X Marks the Spot," by Byrd Howell Granger (1983, The Falconer Publishing Company, Tucson), Metcalf was named for Bob Metcalf, who found copper in the area, In 1889 the Shannon Copper Company was organized. A Post Office was established on 1 May 1899 and was discontinued on 15 May 1936. The town once had 5,000 residents, but is now a ghost town. It is in Greenlee County at elevation 4415 ft.