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Santa Cruz County, Arizona

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
52historic places
—earliest paper
1899formed
47,669pop. 2020
6cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 52 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 3 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Nogales, Tubac, Patagonia.

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 Santa Cruz titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

42 of 52 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

52 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
10 Cottages on Short StreetNogalesBuilding1985
Arizona-Sonora Manufacturing Company Machine ShopNogalesBuilding1985
Atascosa Lookout HouseTubacBuilding1988
Barrio de Tubac Archeological DistrictTubacDistrict2003
Bowman HotelNogalesBuilding1985
Bowman, W. G., HouseNogalesBuilding1985
Burton BuildingNogalesBuilding1985
Cady HallPatagoniaBuilding1992
Calabasas NHLNogalesSite1971
Canelo Ranger StationCaneloBuilding1993
Canelo SchoolCaneloBuilding1991
Cranz, Frank F., HouseNogalesBuilding1985
Crawford Hill Historic Residential DistrictNogalesDistrict1985
Dunbar, George, HouseNogalesBuilding1985
Finley, James, HousePatagoniaBuilding1974
Guevavi Mission Ruins NHLNogalesSite1971
Harrison, Sen. James A., HouseNogalesBuilding1985
Hotel BlancaNogalesBuilding1985
House at 220 Walnut StreetNogalesBuilding1985
House at 334-338 Walnut StreetNogalesBuilding1985
House at 665 Morley AvenueNogalesBuilding1985
Kitchen, Pete, RanchNogalesBuilding1975
Kress, S. H., & Co., BuildingNogalesBuilding1985
Las Dos Naciones Cigar FactoryNogalesBuilding1985
Little Outfit Schoolhouse, ThePatagoniaBuilding2009
Marsh Heights Historic DistrictNogalezDistrict1985
Marsh, George B., BuildingNogalesBuilding1985
Mediterranean Style HouseNogalesBuilding1985
Mediterranean Style HouseNogalesBuilding1985
Miller, Hugo, HouseNogalesBuilding1985
Montezuma HotelNogalesBuilding1985
Nogales Electric Light, Ice & Water Company Power HouseNogalesBuilding1985
Nogales High SchoolNogalesBuilding1985
Nogales Steam Laundry BuildingNogalesBuilding1985
Noon, A. S., BuildingNogalesBuilding1985
Old Nogales City Hall and Fire StationNogalesBuilding1980
Old Tubac SchoolhouseTubacBuilding1970
Pennington Rural Historic LandscapeNogalesDistrict2000
Piscorski, Jose, BuildingNogalesBuilding1985
RubyRuby and VicinityDistrict1975
San Rafael Ranch Historic DistrictPatagoniaDistrict2008
Santa Cruz Bridge No. 1NogalesStructure1988
Santa Cruz County CourthouseNogalesBuilding1977
Three Mediterranean Cottages on Pajarito StreetNogalesBuilding1985
Tubac PresidioTubacSite1970
Tubac Townsite Historic DistrictTubacDistrict1994
Tumacacori Museum NHLTumacacoriBuilding1987
Tumacacori National MonumentTumacacoriDistrict1966
U.S. Inspection Office, Morley Gate-Nogales, ArizonaNogalesBuilding2016
US Custom HouseNogalesBuilding1987
US Post Office and Immigration Station-Nogales MainNogalesBuilding1985
Wise, J. E., BuildingNogalesBuilding1985

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Santa Cruz was formed in 1899 (1899-03-15) from Pima.

SANTA CRUZ created by Arizona Territory from PIMA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Santa Cruz County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).

48k26k4,54519001920196020002020
19001920194019501960198020002020
4,54512,6899,4829,34410,80820,45938,38147,669

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).

SiteTypeDist.
Tumacácori National Historic ParkPark unit17.8 km
Coronado National MemorialPark unit59.8 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

6 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed
NameLatLon
Black Oak Cemetery31.55607-110.54681
El Oro Cemetery31.42787-111.27732
Fruitland Cemetery31.66953-110.56147
Gatlin Jones Cemetery31.53779-110.7503
Ione Marcus Gordon Memorial Park31.33538-110.93731
Patagonia Cemetery31.53169-110.76319
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
NameLatLon
Partridge31.47981-111.27537
Sotos Crossing31.63065-111.0362

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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