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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.

Cochise within Cochise County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Photographs

8 of 23 photographs shown, 1940 to 2018

Taken 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.

Interior of the "mercantile," or general store, at Gammons Gulch, a recreated Old West town and the site of dozens of movies, commercial shoots and the like in the remote desert north of Benson in Cochise County, Arizona
Interior of the "mercantile," or general store, at Gammons Gulch, a recreated Old West town and the site of dozens of movies, commercial shoots and the like in the remote desert north of Benson in Cochise County, Arizona
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Prospector's monument in Cochise Couty, Arizona. There are still many old time prospectors throughout this section and they stake claims in the old time way with the claim deed in a tin can buried under a pile of rocks
Prospector's monument in Cochise Couty, Arizona. There are still many old time prospectors throughout this section and they stake claims in the old time way with the claim deed in a tin can buried under a pile of rocks
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Landscape at Chiricahua National Monument, a National Park Service unit in Cochise County, Arizona, that includes balanced rocks and hoodoos, thin spires of rock that protrude from the bottom of an arid badland
Landscape at Chiricahua National Monument, a National Park Service unit in Cochise County, Arizona, that includes balanced rocks and hoodoos, thin spires of rock that protrude from the bottom of an arid badland
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Ranch in a valley. Cochise County, near Bisbee, Arizona
Ranch in a valley. Cochise County, near Bisbee, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Rock formations at Chiricahua National Monument, a National Park Service unit in Cochise County, Arizona, that includes balanced rocks and hoodoos, thin spires of rock that protrude from the bottom of an arid badland
Rock formations at Chiricahua National Monument, a National Park Service unit in Cochise County, Arizona, that includes balanced rocks and hoodoos, thin spires of rock that protrude from the bottom of an arid badland
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Sunset near the desolate Fort Bowie National Historic Site in Cochise County, Arizona
Sunset near the desolate Fort Bowie National Historic Site in Cochise County, Arizona
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
An irrigation "crawler" in a cotton field near Elfrida in southeastern Arizona's Cochise County
An irrigation "crawler" in a cotton field near Elfrida in southeastern Arizona's Cochise County
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Faraway Ranch, Swimming Pool, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ
Faraway Ranch, Swimming Pool, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Cochise County

Fires near this place

61 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural8
Smoking6
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 1992Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
26 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
21 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeGUNNISON
13 August 2020Natural71 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictFOUR SPEAR
11 August 2020Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictMANZORO
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictDRAGOON
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictCOCHISE
31 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePLAYA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cochise QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Red Bird MineSilica, Gold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Red Bird MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Willcox PlayaBromine, HaliteOccurrenceBrine
Willcox Playa BrineSaltOccurrence
Willcox Playa Analcime OccurrenceZeolitesOccurrence
Willcox Playa ZeoliteZeolitesOccurrenceAnalcime
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013HailCochise-Quarter size hail was reported southeast of Cochise.
August 2005Flash FloodCochise-The Town of Cochise had several roads flooded and intersections impassable due to flooding.
June 2018Funnel CloudCochise-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cochise County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Manzoro5.4 miles17
Johnson7.7 miles19
Dragoon8.6 miles19
Kansas Settlement9.1 miles16
Willcox10.7 miles18
Arizona Sun Sites13.7 miles18
Tully14.0 miles21
Pearce15.4 miles18

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 CochiseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2747133The 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.