Big Bug is a ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.

When he was ten years old, he traveled west to California, accompanied partway by the famous Donner Party.

In 1862, Boggs left California for Arizona and settled along Big Bug Creek and began working a mining claim.

The many large boulders in the creek had prevented the use of heavy machinery in the earlier mining, so considerable gold remained.

[5] Big Bug Creek still has some indication of early mining activities, but little if anything remains of the town as of 2010.

[6] The Battle of Big Bug was a skirmish during the Apache Wars involving Theodore Boggs and three other miners.

Caught off guard, the Apaches hastily picked up their shot fellow warriors and retreated up the mountain side.