{{Short description| Unincorporated community in the state of Arizona, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox settlement | official_name = Blue, Arizona | subdivision_name = United States | settlement_type = Unincorporated community | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name1 = Arizona | subdivision_name2 = Greenlee | established_title = | established_date = | government_type = | leader_title = | leader_name = | area_total_km2 = | area_footnotes = | unit_pref = Imperial | website = | utc_offset = -7 | population_density_sq_mi = | area_water_sq_mi = | elevation_ft = 5758 | elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/> | population_as_of = 2000 | population_est = 45 | pop_est_as_of =2025 | pop_est_footnotes = | population_total = 36 | population_density_km2 = | timezone = MST (no DST) | coordinates = {{coord|33|36|36|N|109|06|24|W|region:US_type:city|display=inline,title}} | area_land_sq_mi = | timezone_DST = | utc_offset_DST = | postal_code_type = ZIP code | postal_code = 85922 | area_code = 928 | blank_name = GNIS feature ID | blank_info = 26502<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|26502}}</ref> | blank1_name = | name = }} '''Blue''' (originally, '''Whittum''') is an unincorporated community in Greenlee County, Arizona, United States.
Blue has a ZIP Code of 85922; in 2000, the population of the 85922 ZCTA was 36.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFPopulation?_event=Search&_zip=85922 |title=American FactFinder - Community Facts |access-date=July 13, 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212051210/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFPopulation?_event=Search&_zip=85922 |archive-date=February 12, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In addition to its post office, Blue also contains a public library, and the Blue School, serving all grade levels.
==History== The community was originally named for Nat Whittum, an original settler who was killed at the site in 1891. A post office was established at Whittum in 1894; however, its name was changed to Blue in 1898.<ref name=gnis/>
Blue's population was 80 in the 1940s.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTcjAQAAMAAJ |title=The Attorneys List |publisher=United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, Attorney List Department |year=1940 |page=85 |language=en}}</ref>
==Climate== {{weather box | single line = yes | collapsed=yes | precipitation colour = green | width = auto | location = Blue, Arizona, 1903–1989 | Jan high F = 53.5 | Feb high F = 58.1 | Mar high F = 62.6 | Apr high F = 70.6 | May high F = 78.9 | Jun high F = 88.3 | Jul high F = 88.9 | Aug high F = 85.7 | Sep high F = 80.8 | Oct high F = 72.4 | Nov high F = 61.8 | Dec high F = 54.3 | year high F = 71.3 | Jan low F = 18.6 | Feb low F = 21.1 | Mar low F = 24.5 | Apr low F = 29.4 | May low F = 36.0 | Jun low F = 44.3 | Jul low F = 52.5 | Aug low F = 51.4 | Sep low F = 45.2 | Oct low F = 34.3 | Nov low F = 24.6 | Dec low F = 19.1 | year low F = 33.4 | Jan precipitation inch = 1.35 | Feb precipitation inch = 1.30 | Mar precipitation inch = 1.27 | Apr precipitation inch = 0.70 | May precipitation inch = 0.50 | Jun precipitation inch = 0.68 | Jul precipitation inch = 3.90 | Aug precipitation inch = 3.69 | Sep precipitation inch = 2.27 | Oct precipitation inch = 2.13 | Nov precipitation inch = 1.14 | Dec precipitation inch = 1.79 | year precipitation inch = 20.73 | Jan snow inch = 5.3 | Feb snow inch = 5.9 | Mar snow inch = 2.8 | Apr snow inch = 1.0 | May snow inch = 0.0 | Jun snow inch = 0.0 | Jul snow inch = 0.0 | Aug snow inch = 0.0 | Sep snow inch = 0.0 | Oct snow inch = 0.3 | Nov snow inch = 1.7 | Dec snow inch = 7.6 | year snow inch = 24.6 | unit precipitation days = 0.01 in | Jan precipitation days = 4 | Feb precipitation days = 5 | Mar precipitation days = 5 | Apr precipitation days = 3 | May precipitation days = 2 | Jun precipitation days = 3 | Jul precipitation days = 12 | Aug precipitation days = 12 | Sep precipitation days = 7 | Oct precipitation days = 4 | Nov precipitation days = 4 | Dec precipitation days = 5 | year precipitation days = 66 | source 1 = WRCC<ref>{{cite web|url = https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?az0855|title = BLUE, ARIZONA (020855) |publisher= Western Regional Climate Center|access-date = December 16, 2022 }}</ref> }}
==Education== Blue School District 22 is the area school district, serving K-12. In 1984 Randy Collier of ''The Arizona Republic'' stated due to difficulties in transportation and from being far from other places, "the social life at Blue primarily is at the school."<ref name=Colliernoroom>{{cite news|last=Collier|first=Randy|title=No room to spare for pupils|newspaper=The Arizona Republic|date=February 5, 1984|volume=94|issue=265|pages=A1, A14}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81144983/for-walnut-grove-school-district/ Clipping of first] and [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81145049/for-walnut-grove-school-district/ of second page] ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105793682/ text detail A], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105793717/ text detail B], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105793749/ text detail C]) at Newspapers.com.</ref>
Previously Blue had a K-8 school, so Round Valley High School in Eagar, of the Round Valley Unified School District, served Blue for high school; some students lived with relatives in Eagar and some traveled to and from Eagar via school bus.<ref name=SmithBlue>{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Kim|url=https://www.eacourier.com/copper_era/news/the-blue-school---former-student-finds-a-home-family-in-one-room-school/article_92bd5afe-c8d7-11eb-b7ce-a3800157c0be.html|title=The Blue School - Former student finds a home, family in one-room school house |newspaper=The Copper Era|date=July 20, 2021|accessdate=July 17, 2022}}</ref>
Greenlee County Library System maintains the Blue Public Library in a log cabin adjacent to the Blue School.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.greenleelibraries.org/Pages/Index/70875/blue-library-information|title=Blue Public Library|publisher=Greenlee County Library System|accessdate=July 18, 2022}} - [https://azlibrary.gov/location/blue-public-library Address is given as adjacent to the Blue School]</ref>
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{{Greenlee County, Arizona}} {{authority control}}
Category:Unincorporated communities in Greenlee County, Arizona Category:Unincorporated communities in Arizona