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One of 76 National Register listings published here for Cochise County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Tombstone Courthouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 219 E. Toughnut, Tombstone, 85638
- When was it listed? April 1972
- Category. building
- Census division. Sierra Vista
- National Register reference number. 72000196 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
61 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Tombstone Courthouse 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | TOMBSTONE |
| 22 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | TOMBSTONE |
| 18 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | CHAPULIN |
| 11 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | CABALLO |
| 5 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | JEFFERSON |
| 26 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | TIES |
| 25 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Elfrida Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 5 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 402 acres | Elfrida Fire District | NOT NAMED |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 130 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 130 workings within 5 miles of Tombstone Courthouse: 109 past producers, 9 producers, 5 occurrences, 3 prospects. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Silver, Manganese, Manganese, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argenta Mine | Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | 1922, 1924 | |
| Bonanza Mine Group | Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | 1919, 1950 | |
| Bunker Hill Mine | Silver, Lead, Manganese, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | 1889, 1931 | |
| Bunker Hill Mine | Lead, Manganese, Silver, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Comet and Black Eagle Mines | Manganese, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| Contact Mine | Manganese, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| Contention-Grand Central Mine Group | Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Zinc | Plant | ||
| Cuss Mine | Barium-Barite, Manganese | Occurrence | Unknown | |
| East Side Mine | Silver, Manganese, Lead, Gold | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| Emerald Mine | Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum | Past Producer | Chalcocite, Galena, Malachite, Wulfenite |
Storms near this property
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tombstone, the town this property stands in, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Tombstone | $30,000 | Charleston Road, between the Town of Tombstone and the Town of Sierra Vista, was flooded and part of the road was washed away. Damage to the road occurred between mile post 12 and mile post 14. |
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Tombstone | $10,000 | Cochise County official reported vehicle was stuck in flowing water at mile post 5 along Davis Rd east of Tombstone that closed for approximately 9 hours. A nearby rain gauge had 0.12 inches of rainfall. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tombstone | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tombstone | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several power poles on Gleeson Rd east of Tombstone causing a loss of power for 1100 customers. One home in Tombstone also sustained roof damage. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Tombstone | - | Law enforcement reported water flowing over Charleson Road near Tombstone. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Tombstone | - | Tombstone Police Department reported penny size hail. |
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Tombstone | - | Davis Road between the Town of Tombstone and the Town of McNeal was flooded and impassable due to heavy rainfall. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Tombstone | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tombstone | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Tombstone | - | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
13,507 digitised pages9 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.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Daily Tombstone | 1885 to 1886 |
| Tombstone Daily Epitaph | 1887 to 1890 |
| The Tombstone | 1882 to 1885 |
| The Arizona Kicker | 1893 to 1913 |
| Tombstone Daily Prospector | 1887 to 1891 |
| Tombstone Prospector | 1891 to 1914 |
| Tombstone Weekly Epitaph | 1882 to 1887 |
| Daily Tombstone Epitaph | 1885 to 1887 |
| Tombstone Epitaph | 1887 to Current |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Tombstone Historic District | 0.2 miles | 1966 |
 | Tombstone City Hall | 0.2 miles | 1972 |
 | St. Paul's Episcopal Church | 0.3 miles | 1971 |
 | Sacred Heart Church | 0.4 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 72000196 in Record Group 79. |
| Cochise County | All 76 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.