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Mount Trumbull is located in Mohave County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Mount Trumbull, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1920.

A typical abbreviation for Mount Trumbull: Mt. Trumbull

Mount Trumbull is 5,330 feet [1,625 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Mount Trumbull is 1 mile [or ~1½ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: Mount Trumbull lies in the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) and does not observe daylight saving time

Note: If you travel west from Mount Trumbull, you will leave Mountain Standard Time and cross into the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT). In addition, you will be moving from an area that does not observe daylight saving time to one that does.

Area Code for Mount Trumbull: 928

Adding Mount Trumbull to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Mount Trumbull in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Mount Trumbull was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Mount Trumbull post office opened in 1920.

We also found Mount Trumbull on a map titled Shell Oil Road Map for Arizona (1951).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Mount Trumbull.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Arizona's counties, including Mohave, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Mount Trumbull - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/