[citation needed] The nearby ghost town of Copper Creek is a popular local attraction.

In November 2014 Mammoth was the subject of a fictional horror tale on the Reddit subreddit "r/nosleep", which had a contagious disease wipe out the population.

Naïve users believed and spread the story, somewhat akin to the 1938 War of the Worlds panic.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2), all land.

Eulalia "Sister" Bourne, pioneer Arizona schoolteacher and author (Woman in Levi's, etc.

), lived much of her life in the vicinity, at her homestead in Peppersauce Canyon near San Manuel, and later at her ranch on Copper Creek near Mammoth, where she died in 1984.