Naco, Arizona
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bisbee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85620. The Survey maps it on the Naco quadrangle. 824 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,610 feet above sea level.
On record in Naco
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 2 records
Naco Border Stationlisted 1991- Camp Naco Historic Districtlisted 2012
Population over time
2 figuresNaco fell from 1,046 to 824 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 | 1,046 | |
| 2020 | 824 | -222 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 22 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.
- 1902 USGS Bisbee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1910 USGS Bisbee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1916 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:125000
- 1919 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:125000
- 1927 USGS Bisbee quadrangle1:62500
- 1933 USGS Bisbee quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bisbee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Naco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Naco between 1993 and 2019, burning about 288 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | ARIZONA STREET |
| 27 June 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 26 June 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 11 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Bisbee Fire Department | not named |
| 5 May 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | RIVER FIRE |
| 30 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.7 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | PURDY |
| 26 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fry Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 14 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Naco: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this place
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naco in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2005 | Flash Flood | Naco | $10,000 | United States Border Patrol agents from the Naco Border Patrol Station rescued a woman who was trapped in her vehicle in a flooded wash. The woman was trapped by the flood for more than 45 minutes before the officials were notified. When rescuers did arrive the car was surrounded by rising, swiftly running water that was about 2 inches from the top of the car door and above the victims waist inside. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Naco | $5,000 | Heavy rain caused Purdy Lane to become flooded in Naco. Flood waters entered one home near the roadway. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Naco | $3,000 | Thunderstorm outflow winds damaged several trees in Bisbee. Two shallow-rooted tree were blown down completely. Winds also peeled back roofing material on the patio of one house. |
| November 2019 | Flood | Naco | - | Around one inch of rain fell in southern Cochise County during the afternoon of November 27th with a total of 2 to 3 inches of rain by midnight. By mid evening, several roads became impassable. This included Davis Road, King's Highway north of Route 80 and Frontier Road at Double Adobe. Route 80 was closed west of the Mule Pass Tunnel due to a rock slide. |
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Naco | - | Very heavy rainfall fell across portions of southwest Cochise county, especially around the Sierra Vista and Hereford areas. The Department of Highways reported that several roads in Sierra Vista and Hereford had to be closed due to street flooding. In addition, several washes were flooding in the area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bisbee Junction | 3.5 miles | 22 | |
| Huachuca Terrace | 4.4 miles | 24 | |
| Don Luis | 4.9 miles | 24 | |
| Stark | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Corta Junction | 5.4 miles | 24 | |
| Tintown | 6.0 miles | 24 | |
| South Bisbee | 6.1 miles | 24 | |
| Briggs | 6.3 miles | 24 |
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 Naco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1862064 | 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 8475. 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.












