Forrest was a populated place situated in

Cochise County Cochise County () is a county in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. It is named after the Native American chief Cochise. The population was 125,447 at the 2020 census. The county seat is Bisbee and the most populous city is ...

Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...

, United States. It has an estimated elevation of above sea level. Forrest was on the

El Paso and Southwestern Railroad The El Paso and Southwestern Railroad began in 1888 as the Arizona and South Eastern Railroad, a short line serving copper mines in southern Arizona. Over the next few decades, it grew into a 1200-mile system that stretched from Tucumcari, New ...

and was named for a local old resident and rancher. The Paul Lime Plant began operating nearby in 1918 and the railway spur to there was renamed Paul's Spur. By the 1940s it was the largest lime producer in Southern Arizona. Forrest had a post office that opened on May 8, 1914. Forrest School was twice destroyed by fire, once in 1915 and again in 1929 when it was replaced by a larger brick building. At one time up to 200 families lived nearby working in the lime plant. However following mechanisation the population dropped and the school closed in 1963. Forrest School District continued in existence organising transport to schools in

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{{authority control Populated places in Cochise County, Arizona