Tombstone, Arizona

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 5 records

• Tombstone Historic DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Sacred Heart Churchlisted 2002
• St. Paul's Episcopal Churchlisted 1971
• Tombstone City Halllisted 1972
• Tombstone Courthouselisted 1972

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 20 shown

• Allen Street (Commercial Building), Tombstonefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Allen Street (Commercial Building), Tombstonefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Bird Cage Theatre, Allen Street, near Sixth Street, Tombstonefederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Can Can Saloon, Fourth & Allen Streets, Tombstonefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• City Hall, Fremont Street, Tombstonefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Cochise County Courthouse, Toughnut & Third Streets, Tombstonefederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Crystal Palace Saloon, Allen & 5th Streets, Tombstonefederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Episcopal Church, Third & Safford Streets, Tombstonefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Fifth Street (Commercial Building), Tombstonefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Fire Station, Toughnut Street, Tombstonefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Fremont Street (Commercial Buildings, Ruins), Tombstonefederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Nellie Cashman House, Toughnut & Sixth Streets, Tombstonefederal building survey, 1 photograph

Every surveyed structure in Cochise County

Tombstone fell from 1,380 to 1,308 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.

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.

• 1915 USGS Benson quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1932 USGS Fairbank quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Benson quadrangle1:125000
• 1952 USGS Tombstone quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1952 USGS Tombstone quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Fort Huachuca quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1996 USGS Tombstone quadrangle1:24000

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Tombstone between 1992 and 2020, burning about 491 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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.

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

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 128 workings within 5 miles of Tombstone: 107 past producers, 9 producers, 5 occurrences, 3 prospects. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Silver, Manganese, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tombstone in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Cochise County

9 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 2,915 issues, 13,507 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 12590. 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.