Willcox, 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 12 of 16 shown

• Benjamin E. Briscoe Houselisted 1987
• Chiricahua National Monument Historic Designed Landscapelisted 2008
• Crowley Houselisted 1987
• John Gung'l Houselisted 1987
• Hooker Town Houselisted 1987
• Johnson-Tillotson Houselisted 1987
• Joe Mee Houselisted 1987
• Morgan Houselisted 1987
• Norton, John H., and Company Storelisted 1983
• Harry Saxon Houselisted 1987
• Schwertner Houselisted 1983
• Pablo Soto Houselisted 1987

Every listing in Cochise County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 16 shown

• Faraway Ranch, Barn & Tool Shed, Willcoxfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Faraway Ranch, Cattle Tank Retaining Wall & Windmill, Willcoxfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Faraway Ranch, Cowboy House, Willcoxfederal building survey, 7 photographs
• Faraway Ranch, East Bonita Canyon Road (east of the entrance into the Chiricahua National Monument from Arizona SR 181), Willcoxfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Faraway Ranch, Erickson-Riggs Ranch House, State Highway 181, Willcoxfederal building survey, 46 photographs
• Faraway Ranch, Garage, Willcoxfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Faraway Ranch, Generator House, Willcoxfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Faraway Ranch, Guest Quarters-Bunkhouse, Willcoxfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Faraway Ranch, Office-Garage, Willcoxfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Faraway Ranch, Pig Pen, Willcoxfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Faraway Ranch, Stafford-Riggs Cabin, Willcoxfederal building survey, 13 photographs
• Faraway Ranch, Storage Shed, Willcoxfederal building survey, 3 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Cochise County

Willcox fell from 3,757 to 3,213 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.

• 1922 USGS Willcox quadrangle1:125000
• 1943 USGS Willcox quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Willcox quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Willcox North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Willcox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1996 USGS Willcox North 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 147 fires within 5 miles of Willcox between 1992 and 2020, burning about 807 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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.

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 27 workings within 5 miles of Willcox: 21 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. 21 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Copper. 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 Willcox in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 12 flash flood, 9 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 3 deaths and 7 injuries. 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

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 956 issues, 6,717 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 13808. 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.