A post office was established at Turkey Creek in July 1869 but closed within a few months.

[3] James Cleator was a Manx who had run away to sea as a boy, arriving in America with Spanish sailors in 1889 and walking his way to gold mines in California before traveling through Mexico to Arizona by 1900.

He approached Nellis in 1905 and the pair became business partners, running the town and opening a ranch together; in 1915 they split properties, with James Cleator trading his interest in the ranch and $2500 for Nellis's interest in the town, taking full possession.

Original American frontier buildings and an ironic yacht club (there are no water features near the town) serve as attractions.

In 2020, the descendants of James P. Cleator put the entire town up for sale at the price of $1.25 million.