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Dragoon, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Benson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85609. It lies near Jordan Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Dragoon quadrangle. 178 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,632 feet above sea level.

Dragoon within Cochise County

On record in Dragoon

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

Population over time

2 figures

Dragoon fell from 209 to 178 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010209
2020178-31 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Dragoon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21,911 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined93
Natural35
Equipment and vehicle use20
Debris and open burning7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
28 September 2000Natural4.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeGUNNISON
21 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeOXYGEN
19 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
14 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeREST AREA
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAPPRENTICE
29 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTOWERS
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.8 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictTOUCHSTONE
25 August 2011Natural1,632 acresCoronado National ForestFOURR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Dragoon: 55 past producers, 12 prospects, 11 occurrences, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, 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
Apache Yellow QuarriesMarble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1909, 1953
Banks MineTungsten, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerHuebnerite, Scheelite
Banks MineTungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Bluebird MineTungsten, Copper, QuartzPast Producer1898
Bluebird MineTungsten, Copper, Bismuth, BerylliumPast Producer1898, 1900
Buena Vista MineLead, Silver, CopperPast Producer1914, 1937
Burrel Claim GroupCopper, Lead, Silver, Tungsten, ZincPast Producer
Centurion Area Small MinesTungsten, Copper, SilverPast ProducerScheelite
Dividend TunnelTungsten, Copper, Beryllium, BismuthPast Producer
Empire No 2 MineCopper, Lead, Silver, TungstenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this place

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dragoon in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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
August 2018Flash FloodDragoon1 killed, $10,000Heavy rain of 1.5 to 2 inches fell over a two hour period over and just east of the 2017 Lizard Fire Burn Scar. A motorist drown when his car became stuck in flood waters on Cochise Stronghold Road a mile south of Dragoon Road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindDragoon$11,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down seven power poles along Dragoon Rd forcing it to close for a several hours.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindDragoon$10,000Four power poles were downed along Dragoon Rd.
July 2025Flash FloodDragoon$2,000A trained spotter reported flash flooding across roadway. With a nearby measured rainfall of 1.18 inches in 30 minutes.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindDragoon$1,000A trained spotter reported wind damage to awnings of a residence near Dragoon. The Willcox sheriff reported a horse was killed near Cochise, after a downed power line electrocuted the animal.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDragoon-Personal weather station estimate of 60 mph gust.
July 2022Flash FloodDragoon-Heavy rain of 1.5 in 1 hour caused flash flooding and the closure of Dragoon Rd. south of Interstate 10.
September 2016Flash FloodDragoon-Thunderstorms produced brief heavy rain that caused 6 to 12 inches of water to flow over Dragoon Road and Old Ranch Road.
July 2008Flash FloodDragoon-A trained spotter reported flooding on Highway 191 near Pearce.
July 2018HailDragoon-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
Manzoro3.8 miles17
Johnson5.4 miles19
Tully5.5 miles21
Cochise8.6 miles17
Arizona Sun Sites8.8 miles18
Fenner11.0 miles21
Saint David12.6 miles21
Pomerene13.3 miles21

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 DragoonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5245026The 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 4089. 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.