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.
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
J.H. Smith Grocery Store and Filling Stationlisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresDragoon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 209 | |
| 2020 | 178 | -31 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1943 USGS Dragoon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Dragoon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Dragoon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Dragoon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
176 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 93 |
| Natural | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2000 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | GUNNISON |
| 21 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | OXYGEN |
| 19 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 14 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | REST AREA |
| 12 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | APPRENTICE |
| 29 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | TOWERS |
| 28 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.8 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | TOUCHSTONE |
| 25 August 2011 | Natural | 1,632 acres | Coronado National Forest | FOURR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 86 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Yellow Quarries | Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | 1909, 1953 | |
| Banks Mine | Tungsten, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | Huebnerite, Scheelite | |
| Banks Mine | Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Bluebird Mine | Tungsten, Copper, Quartz | Past Producer | 1898 | |
| Bluebird Mine | Tungsten, Copper, Bismuth, Beryllium | Past Producer | 1898, 1900 | |
| Buena Vista Mine | Lead, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | 1914, 1937 | |
| Burrel Claim Group | Copper, Lead, Silver, Tungsten, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Centurion Area Small Mines | Tungsten, Copper, Silver | Past Producer | Scheelite | |
| Dividend Tunnel | Tungsten, Copper, Beryllium, Bismuth | Past Producer | ||
| Empire No 2 Mine | Copper, Lead, Silver, Tungsten | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Dragoon | 1 killed, $10,000 | Heavy 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dragoon | $11,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down seven power poles along Dragoon Rd forcing it to close for a several hours. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dragoon | $10,000 | Four power poles were downed along Dragoon Rd. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Dragoon | $2,000 | A trained spotter reported flash flooding across roadway. With a nearby measured rainfall of 1.18 inches in 30 minutes. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dragoon | $1,000 | A 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dragoon | - | Personal weather station estimate of 60 mph gust. |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Dragoon | - | Heavy rain of 1.5 in 1 hour caused flash flooding and the closure of Dragoon Rd. south of Interstate 10. |
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Dragoon | - | Thunderstorms produced brief heavy rain that caused 6 to 12 inches of water to flow over Dragoon Road and Old Ranch Road. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Dragoon | - | A trained spotter reported flooding on Highway 191 near Pearce. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Dragoon | - | 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 | 3.8 miles | 17 | |
| Johnson | 5.4 miles | 19 | |
| Tully | 5.5 miles | 21 | |
| Cochise | 8.6 miles | 17 | |
| Arizona Sun Sites | 8.8 miles | 18 | |
| Fenner | 11.0 miles | 21 | |
| Saint David | 12.6 miles | 21 | |
| Pomerene | 13.3 miles | 21 |
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 Dragoon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5245026 | 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 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.









