Cochise, Arizona
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Willcox census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85606. It stands on Walnut Wash. The Survey maps it on the Cochise quadrangle. 1,592 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 4,222 feet above sea level.
On record in Cochise
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Cochise Hotellisted 1976
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Cochise Overpass, Spanning the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) at Milepost 62.88 of U.S. Highway 191 (U.S. 191), Cochisefederal building survey, 1 photograph
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1922 USGS Willcox quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Cochise quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Cochise quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cochise quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Willcox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Cochise quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
8 of 23 photographs shown, 1940 to 2018Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Every photograph of Cochise County
Fires near this place
61 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Cochise between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,487 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 26 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 21 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | GUNNISON |
| 13 August 2020 | Natural | 71 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | FOUR SPEAR |
| 11 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | MANZORO |
| 7 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | DRAGOON |
| 4 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | COCHISE |
| 31 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | PLAYA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Cochise: 7 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Zeolites, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cochise Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Red Bird Mine | Silica, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Red Bird Mine | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Willcox Playa | Bromine, Halite | Occurrence | Brine | |
| Willcox Playa Brine | Salt | Occurrence | ||
| Willcox Playa Analcime Occurrence | Zeolites | Occurrence | ||
| Willcox Playa Zeolite | Zeolites | Occurrence | Analcime | |
| Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cochise in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Hail | Cochise | - | Quarter size hail was reported southeast of Cochise. |
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | Cochise | - | The Town of Cochise had several roads flooded and intersections impassable due to flooding. |
| June 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Cochise | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manzoro | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Johnson | 7.7 miles | 19 | |
| Dragoon | 8.6 miles | 19 | |
| Kansas Settlement | 9.1 miles | 16 | |
| Willcox | 10.7 miles | 18 | |
| Arizona Sun Sites | 13.7 miles | 18 | |
| Tully | 14.0 miles | 21 | |
| Pearce | 15.4 miles | 18 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Cochise | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2747133 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 3069. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.








