Vail Arizona
Vail is located in Pima County, Arizona. The town known as “The Town between the Tracks,” was named after Walter Vail. He formed the Empire Ranch in 1876 which included most of Pima, Cochise, and Santa Cruz counties. It also extended up to New Mexico.
According to verbal tradition, when the Southern Pacific Railroad came through in the year 1880, Mr. Vail had built a small adobe building between the tracks that would accommodate the transfer of freight and mail to the town. The building was deeded to the US Postal Service in 1900 and it still stands today. The railroad, in turn created many small communities, the largest of which, the Pantano remains, are still visible along the tracks of east Vail.
The population of Vail is 2,484 as of year 2000 census.
