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Cochise County, Arizona

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86historic places

—earliest paper

1881formed

125,447pop. 2020

32cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 86 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 8 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Douglas, Willcox, Bisbee.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Arizona is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Cochise titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

50 of 86 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

86 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Apache Powder Historic Residential District	Benson	District	1994
Barfoot Lookout Complex	Portal	Building	1988
Bear Spring House, Guardhouse, and Spring	Bowie	District	1983
Benson Historic Barrio	Benson	District	2011
Benson Railroad Historic District	Benson	District	1994
Bisbee Historic District	Bisbee	District	1980
Bisbee Residential Historic District (Additional Documentation)	Bisbee	District	2010
Bisbee Woman's Club Clubhouse	Bisbee	Building	1985
Bowie School District No. 14	Bowie	District	2015
Briscoe, Benjamin E., House	Willcox	Building	1987
Camp Naco Historic District	Naco	District	2012
Chiricahua National Monument Historic Designed Landscape	Willcox	District	2008
Cima Park Fire Guard Station	Douglas	Building	1993
Cochise Hotel	Cochise	Building	1976
Coronado National Memorial	Bisbee	Structure	1966
Council Rocks Archaeological District	St. David	District	1987
Crowley House	Willcox	Building	1987
Double Adobe Site NHL	Douglas	Site	1966
Douglas Historic District	Douglas	District	1985
Douglas Municipal Airport	Douglas	District	1975
Douglas Residential Historic District	Douglas	District	1986
Douglas Sonoran Historic District	Douglas	District	1987
Douglas Underpass	Douglas	Structure	1988
Douglas, Walter, House	Bisbee	Building	2000
Dragoon Springs Stage Station Site	Dragoon	Site	1979
El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Passenger Depot-Douglas	Douglas	Building	1986
El Paso and Southwestern Railroad YMCA	Douglas	Building	1984
Evergreen Cemetery	Bisbee	Site	2005
Faraway Ranch Historic District	Dos Cabezas	District	1980
Fort Bowie National Historic Site NHL	Bowie	District	1972
Fort Huachuca NHL	Sierra Vista	District	1974
Fry Pioneer Cemetery	Sierra Vista	Site	2009
Gadsden Hotel	Douglas	Building	1976
Garden Canyon Archeological Site	Sierra Vista	Site	1975
Garden Canyon Petroglyphs	Sierra Vista	Site	1974
Geronimo Surrender Site	Douglas	Site	1998
Grand Theatre	Douglas	Building	1976
Gung'l, John, House	Willcox	Building	1987
Hereford Bridge	Hereford	Structure	1988
Hi Wo Company Grocery	Benson	Building	1994
Hooker Town House	Willcox	Building	1987
Johnson-Tillotson House	Willcox	Building	1987
Kinjockity Ranch	Hereford	Building	1996
Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site NHL	Hereford	Site	1967
Martinez, W. D., General Merchadise Store	Benson	Building	1994
Mee, Joe, House	Willcox	Building	1987
Monte Vista Lookout Cabin	Elfrida	Building	1988
Morgan House	Willcox	Building	1987
Mountain View Officers' Club	Ft. Huachuca	Building	2017
Muheim House	Bisbee	Building	1979
Murray Springs Clovis Site NHL	Sierra Vista	Site	2012
Naco Border Station	Naco	Building	1991
Naco-Mammoth Kill Site	Naco	Site	1976
Norton, John H., and Company Store	Willcox	Building	1983
Oasis Court	Benson	Building	1994
Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church	Pearce	Building	2004
Pearce General Store	Pearce	Building	1978
Phelps Dodge General Office Building NHL	Bisbee	Building	1971
Portal Ranger Station	Portal	Building	1993
Quiburi	Fairbank	Site	1971
Railroad Avenue Historic District	Willcox	District	1987
Redfield-Romine House	Benson	Building	1994
Rucker Canyon Archeological District	Douglas	District	1995
Rustler Park Fire Guard Station	Douglas	Building	1993
Sacred Heart Church	Tombstone	Building	2002
San Bernardino Ranch NHL	Douglas	District	1966
Saxon, Harry, House	Willcox	Building	1987
Schilling Ranch Historic District	Corral	District	2009
Schwertner House	Willcox	Building	1983
Silver Peak Lookout Complex	Portal	Building	1988
Smith, J.H., Grocery Store and Filling Station	Dragoon	Building	2004
Smith-Beck House	Benson	Building	1994
Soto, Pablo, House	Willcox	Building	1987
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church	Bisbee	Building	1995
St. Paul's Episcopal Church	Tombstone	Building	1971
Stafford Cabin	Willcox	Building	1975
Tombstone City Hall	Tombstone	Building	1972
Tombstone Courthouse	Tombstone	Building	1972
Tombstone Historic District NHL	Tombstone	District	1966
Treu, John, House	Bisbee	Building	1995
Treu, Max, Territorial Meat Company	Benson	Building	1994
U.S. Inspection Station-Douglas, Arizona	Douglas	Building	2014
US Post Office and Customs House-Douglas Main	Douglas	Building	1985
Warren Historic District	Bisbee	District	2025
Willcox Women's Club	Willcox	Building	1987
Wilson, J. C., House	Willcox	Building	1987

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Cochise was formed in 1881 (1881-02-01) from Pima.

COCHISE created by Arizona Territory from PIMA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Cochise County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,938	9,251	46,465	34,627	31,488	55,039	85,686	117,755	125,447

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Chiricahua National Monument	Park unit	44.3 km
Fossil Buttes National Monument	Park unit	46.6 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

32 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 32 of 32 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
7th Street Cemetery	31.96422	-110.29377
Apache Cemetery	31.67872	-109.13054
Apodaca Cemetery	32.19461	-110.3009
Boothill Graveyard	31.72006	-110.07026
Bowie Desert Rest Cemetery	32.33243	-109.48613
Calvary Cemetery	31.33708	-109.53908
Cochise Gardens of Rest Cemetery	31.94959	-110.29089
Cottonwood Creek Cemetery	31.45651	-109.12355
Courtland Cemetery	31.77388	-109.80825
Dragoon Springs Cemetery	31.99757	-110.0224
Erickson Cemetery	32.00838	-109.38763
Evergreen Cemetery	31.4307	-109.88998
Fort Huachuca Cemetery	31.54875	-110.3765
Giddings Grave	32.33758	-109.05395
Gleeson Cemetery	31.731	-109.83551
High Street Cemetery	31.95898	-110.30535
Kambitsch Cemetery	31.85593	-109.54189
Light Cemetery	31.9196	-109.6356
Mcneal Cemetery	31.59807	-109.65483
Neighborhood Cemetery	32.00179	-109.40577
Paradise Cemetery	31.93169	-109.20819
Pearce Cemetery	31.90813	-109.82933
Riggs Cemetery	32.02812	-109.46268
Rucker Cemetery	31.73415	-109.48863
Sacred Heart Cemetery	31.36494	-109.57826
Saint David Cemetery	31.86622	-110.20553
Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery	31.541	-110.30511
Sulphur Springs Cemetery	32.05086	-109.78051
Sunnyside Cemetery	31.42562	-110.40926
Tombstone Cemetery	31.71738	-110.07917
Tompkins Memorial Park	31.5326	-110.29091
Wells Family Cemetery	31.44308	-109.50257

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Bernardino	31.51065	-109.31284
Bowie Junction	32.36257	-109.62562
Charleston	31.6358	-110.1725
Fairbank	31.72315	-110.18841

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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