Moving to Kearny, AZ

About Kearny

Kearny is a company-built town in the Copper Basin of Pinal County with the motto "The Heart of the Copper Basin." It was constructed in 1958 by the Kennecott Mining Company as a planned community to relocate residents of Ray, Sonora, and Barcelona, whose neighborhoods were about to be swallowed by Kennecott's expanding open-pit copper mine; some houses were moved down the road intact. The town was incorporated in 1959 and named for General Stephen Watts Kearny, who passed through the area in 1846. Population was 1,741 at the 2020 census. The economic base remains the Ray copper mine and the Hayden Smelter, both owned and operated by ASARCO.

Home prices in Kearny

The median list in Kearny is $173,000.

Top places in Kearny

• Rail and Copper Park — the town's centerpiece mining-heritage park (shown in the Commons photo below).
• Kearny historic marker — the town's founding story.
• Copper Basin Railway — loaded ore trains passing through town (shown in the Commons photo below).
• The Gila River — desert river corridor near town.
• Kearny Airport — general aviation field on the town's south side.
• Historic Ray mine district — the copper operation the town was built to serve, just north of Kearny.
• Picketpost Mountain — prominent desert peak visible from the Copper Basin area.

Commuting from Kearny

• Arizona State Routes 177 and 77; no passenger rail service.
• Approximate drive to downtown Phoenix: ~1 hour 45 minutes–2 hours (approximately 90 miles; approximate).
• Kearny Airport (P29) is a general aviation airport on the south side of town; in 2003 it received the Arizona Department of Transportation's Airport of the Year award.

Kearny FAQs

• What is the housing market like in Kearny, AZ?
  The median list in Kearny is $173,000. Median listing price · Sep 2026
• How is the commute from Kearny, AZ?
  Arizona State Routes 177 and 77; no passenger rail service.

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