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Globe is a city in and the county seat of Gila County, Arizona, served by ZIP codes 85501 and 85502.

Globe was founded around 1875 as a mining camp and was incorporated as a city in 1907.

In Western Apache, Globe is called Bésh Baa Gowąh, meaning "Place of Metal."

Silver was discovered in the area in 1875 — including an unusual globe-shaped silver nugget said to have given the town its name — and copper soon became the dominant metal.

The Old Dominion Copper Company ranked among the richest copper operations in the world in the early 1900s, but the mine closed permanently in 1931 after producing some 800 million pounds of copper, and mining activity shifted toward neighboring Miami.

Globe's first newspaper was printed on May 2, 1878, and the town became the seat of Gila County in February 1881.

The Apache Kid was tried at the Globe Courthouse on October 23, 1889, in a case followed by the Kelvin Grade Massacre.

About a mile south of Globe lie the Besh-Ba-Gowah ruins, a Salado pueblo occupied from about AD 1225 to 1400, now preserved as an archaeological park.

Globe High School, built in 1910, is described as the oldest high school in Arizona still in use by its original school.

The Globe Downtown Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.