GLOBE, a city of Arizona, U.S.A., 75m. E. by S. of Phoenix, on Federal highway 18o and the Southern Pacific railway; the county seat of Gila county. The population was 7,044 in 1920, and was 7,157 in 1930 Federal census. It is the centre of a cattle raising and copper-mining region. In recent years the Globe Miami district has outranked the Bisbee district in production of copper (175,272,000lb. in 1925), and has stood third in the United States. Silver, gold, asbestos and cinnabar also are mined, and there are coal fields and quicksilver properties in the vicinity. Roosevelt dam and reservoir are 25m. north-west. Coolidge dam (under construction 1928) is 30m. south. Globe was founded about 1874, and was incorporated as a city in 1907.