Globe is in southern Gila County at 33°23′59″N 110°46′54″W / 33.39972°N 110.78167°W / 33.39972; -110.78167 (33.399858, −110.781570),[6] in the valley of Pinal Creek, a north-flowing tributary of the Salt River.

The western terminus of U.S. Route 70 is in Globe at US 60 on the east side of town; US 70 leads southeast through the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation 77 miles (124 km) to Safford and 2,385 miles (3,838 km) to its eastern terminus at Atlantic, North Carolina.

Globe, Miami, and the unincorporated areas nearby (including Inspiration, Claypool and Central Heights-Midland City) are commonly called "Globe-Miami".

In December 2008, weekend excursion service under the name Copper Spike began operating from Globe to the Apache Gold Hotel Casino near San Carlos.

[7][8] Trains operated four daily round-trips on Thursdays through Sundays (autumn through spring) until 2011, when the Copper Spike Excursions were discontinued.

Globe has a semi-arid climate, characterized by hot summers and moderate to warm winters.

[17] Major employers in Globe include Gila County, Arizona State Prison Complex – Florence, Heritage Health Care Center, Globe Unified School District, and Gila Community College.

Coming with Globe's new importance as the county seat came a stagecoach line linking it to Silver City, New Mexico.

Globe's history is laced with many historic events such as murders, stagecoach robberies, outlaws, lynchings, and Apache raids.

Natiotish, a San Carlos Apache, left the reservation with a group of about 50 men and continued to attack ranchers and miners.

In 1884 the surviving Clanton brothers Ike and Phineas arrived in Apache County after the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone.

Ike was eventually killed by a local deputy sheriff, and Phineas, after serving prison time for a stage robbery, moved to Globe, where he died of pneumonia and was buried in 1906.

After he was convicted, it was the responsibility of Sheriff Glenn Reynolds to transport him to the Arizona Territorial Prison in Yuma.

Sheriff Reynolds, his deputy, and their prisoners set out in an armored stagecoach holding the Apache Kid inside.

At an incline in the road, known as the Kelvin Grade Massacre, near present-day Kearny, Sheriff Reynolds let some of the prisoners out of the stagecoach seeing as they were on an uphill climb and he wanted to ease the burden on the horses.

Federal troops were called in to restore order, miners began returning to work, and the mine was back to normal production by October.

[19] (Buildings that burned or no longer stand are listed in italics) Nearby cities and towns include Claypool, Cutter, Miami, Pinal, Top-of-the-World, and Superior.