Free Arizona Directories are available online. 

Gazetteers contain descriptions of towns, churches, terrain, populations, and more. They may include place names, maps, boundaries, and distances between cities.

City directories contain an alphabetized list of residents with their addresses, spouse’s name, professions, and often a reverse lookup by address. They often contain historical information about a locale and they’ll usually contain a separate business directory.

free Arizona Directories at Internet Archive

Business Directories & Gazetteers

• Arizona – 1876-1878 Pacific Coast Business Directory: Containing the Name and Post Office Address of Each Merchant, Manufacturer and Professional residing in the states of California, Oregon, and Nevada; the territories of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Arizona, and Alaska; and the colony of British Columbia. Also, a gazetteer of the counties, cities, and towns …, Internet Archive

• Arizona – 1880 Pacific coast directory: containing names, business and address of merchants, manufacturers and professional men; county, city, state, territorial and federal officers, and notaries public, of California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, and British Columbia : together with a sketch of the different cities and towns … : complete classified and alphabetical lists, convenient for reference: invaluable for all business men, Internet Archive

• Arizona – 1881 Arizona Business Directory and Gazetteer Containing the Name and Post Office Address of Each Merchant, Manufacturer and Professional Men in the Territory of Arizona … also a Gazetteer of the Counties, Cities and Towns, Internet Archive

• Arizona – 1883 McKenney’s Business Directory of the principal towns of Central and Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Colorado and Kansas: including cities and towns on the Southern Pacific, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Kansas Pacific, and St. Joseph and Western railroads, Internet Archive

• Arizona – 1883 Pacific Coast Directory: giving name, business, and address of business and professional men of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and New Mexico: together with sketches of the different towns: complete alphabetical lists of 3,000 cities and towns, Internet Archive

• Arizona – 1886 Pacific Coast Directory giving Name, Business, and Address of Business and Professional Men of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and New Mexico; together with sketches of the different towns, giving location, population, etc.; complete alphabetical lists of 3,000 cities and towns; over 35,000 names, Internet Archive

• Arizona – 1888 Meyer’s Business Directory of the City of Phoenix, Arizona, Internet Archive

• Arizona – 1888 Pacific Coast Business Directory of San Francisco, Central and Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Southern Colorado Volume 1, Internet Archive

• Arizona – 1888 Pacific Coast Business Directory of San Francisco, Central and Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Southern Colorado Volume 1 (alternate source), Internet Archive

• Arizona – 1888 Pacific Coast Business Directory of San Francisco, Central and Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Southern Colorado Volume 2, Internet Archive

• Arizona – 1888 Pacific Coast Business Directory of San Francisco, Central and Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Southern Colorado Volume 3, Internet Archive

• Arizona – 1922 Arizona State Business Directory including El Paso, Texas, with Los Angeles and Foreign Classifications part 1, Internet Archive

• Arizona – 1922 Arizona State Business Directory including El Paso, Texas, with Los Angeles and Foreign Classifications part 2, Internet Archive

• Arizona – McKenney’s Pacific Coast directory, 1883-1884, FamilySearch

• Arizona – Pacific Coast business directory, 1867, FamilySearch

• Arizona – The Pacific Coast directory : giving name, business, and address of business and professional men of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and New Mexico together with sketches of the different towns, giving location, population, etc., FamilySearch

• Arizona – The Russian Molokan directory : Arizona, California, Oregon, Lower California, Mexico, FamilySearch

Newspaper Directory

• Arizona – 1894 Pacific States Newspaper Directory: containing a carefully prepared list of all the newspapers and periodicals published in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, British Columbia, Utah, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Hawaiian Islands: arranged alphabetically by towns, and also by counties, with a brief description of each state, territory and county, making an invaluable guide to those who wish to place advertising to the best possible advantage, Internet Archive

Arizona County Directories

• Cochise County – Bisbee-Douglas city directory, FamilySearch

• Cochise County – Northern Cochise County directory, FamilySearch

• Cochise County – Polk’s Douglas-Bisbee (Cochise County, Arizona) city directory : including Fry, Huachuca City, Pirtleville, and Sierra Vista, FamilySearch

• Gila County – Polk’s Globe-Miami (Gila County, Arizona) city directory : including Central Heights, Claypool, and Inspiration, FamilySearch

• Maricopa County – Glendale (Maricopa County, Arizona) city directory : including Avondale, Cashion, El Mirage, Goodyear, Litchfield Park, Peoria, Sun City, Surprise, Tolleson, and Youngtown, contain buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory, FamilySearch

• Maricopa County – The Mullin-Kille Glendale, Arizona consurvey city directory, FamilySearch

• Maricopa County – The Mullin-Kille Mesa, Tempe, Chandler and Gilbert …, Arizona, ConSurvey city directory, FamilySearch

• Maricopa County – Phoenix City and Salt River Valley directory : including Phoenix, Buckeye, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Mesa, Peoria, Scottsdale and Tempe buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory, FamilySearch

• Maricopa County – Salisbury’s Glendale, Arizona, north and west Maricopa County directory, FamilySearch

• Maricopa County – Scottsdale (Maricopa County, Arizona) city directory : including Paradise Valley, contains buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory, FamilySearch

• Maricopa County – Scottsdale, Arizona, city directory : including Scottsdale School District and Paradise Valley; also the buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory, FamilySearch

• Mohave County – Kingman (Mohave County, Ariz.) city directory : including Mohave County taxpayers, contains buyers’ guide and a complete classification directory, FamilySearch

• Navajo County – Navajo County directory, FamilySearch

• Navajo County – Polk’s Winslow-Holbrook (Navajo County, Arizona) city directory : including Joseph City, FamilySearch

• Pinal County –  Polk’s Casa Grande (Pinal County, Arizona) city directory : including Coolidge, Eloy, Florence and Pinal County farmers list, FamilySearch

• Yavapai County – Prescott (Arizona) city directories, FamilySearch