Bisbee, Arizona Bisbee, Arizona Bisbee, Arizona is positioned in the US Bisbee, Arizona - Bisbee, Arizona Website City of Bisbee Bisbee is a town/city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, 92 miles (148 km) southeast of Tucson.
According to the 2010 census, the populace of the town/city was 5,575. The town/city is the governmental center of county of Cochise County. 1.2 Bisbee deportation 1.4 Modern Bisbee 2 Naco and Bisbee Junction Bisbee was established as a copper, gold, and silver quarrying town in 1880, and titled in honor of Judge De - Witt Bisbee, one of the financial backers of the adjoining Copper Queen Mine.
In 1929, the governmental center of county was moved from Tombstone to Bisbee, where it remains.
Classic azurite mineral specimen from the Bisbee mines, collected about 1890 Mining in the Mule Mountains proved quite successful: in the early 20th century the populace of Bisbee soared.
A high character turquoise promoted as Bisbee Blue was a by-product of the copper mining.
Many high-quality mineral specimens have come from Bisbee region mines and are to be found in exhibition collections worldwide.
Bisbee deportation Main article: Bisbee Deportation But, by 1950, the populace of Bisbee had dropped to less than 6,000.
Bisbee Mayor Chuck Eads, with cooperation of Phelps Dodge, implemented evolution of a mine tour and historic interpretation of a portion of the world-famous Copper Queen Mine as part of an accomplishment to problematic tradition tourism as another base for the economy.
It allowed a large grant to the City of Bisbee to help the mine tour universal and other improvements in downtown Bisbee; these were designed to meet tourist company needs.
Panorama of Bisbee in 1916 From 1950 to 1960, the sharp populace decline changed and the number of inhabitants of Bisbee increased by nearly 160 percent when open-pit quarrying was undertaken and the town/city annexed close-by areas.
Coupled with an attractive climate and picturesque scenery, Bisbee became a destination in the 1960s for artists and hippies of the counter culture.
Old Bisbee High School building Hutchison began to market Bisbee as a destination of the "authentic," old Southwest.
Actor John Wayne was a incessant visitor to Bisbee and the Copper Queen.
This reconstructionof Bisbee's history is well documented in intact articles in The New Yorker and in an article by Cynthia Buchanan in The Cornell Review.
It was at this time that Bisbee became a haven for artists and hippies fleeing the larger metros/cities of Arizona and California.
In the 1990s, additional citizens have been thriving to Bisbee, dominant it to precarious such amenities as coffee shops and live theatre.
Many of the old homes have been renovated, and property values in Bisbee now greatly exceed those of other southeastern Arizona cities.
Today, the historic town/city of Bisbee is known as "Old Bisbee" and is home to a grow downtown cultural scene.
Because its plan was laid out to a pedestrian scale before the automobile, Old Bisbee is compact and walkable.
Panorama of Bisbee in 2009 Panorama of Bisbee in 2009 Bisbee was a runner-up as one of the "quirkiest" suburbs in America. The town/city of Bisbee now includes the satellite communities of Warren, Lowell, and San Jose.
The Lowell and Warren townsites were merged into Bisbee proper amid the early part of the twentieth century.
There are also lesser neighborhoods interspersed between these larger boroughs, including Galena, Bakerville, Tintown, South Bisbee, Briggs, and Saginaw.
The residentiary precinct still homes a momentous portion of the population, and includes City Hall, Greenway Elementary School, Bisbee High School, and the historic Warren Ballpark.
Lowell was at one time a sizeable quarrying town positioned just to the southeast of Old Bisbee.
Free-Port has invested in Bisbee by remediating soil contaminated in previous quarrying operations, donations to the school system,and other civic activities. The Bisbee 1000 Stair Climb is a five-kilometer run through the town/city that traverses 1,034 stairs.
Bisbee also hosts an annual Blues festival, occurring in 2015 amid the second week of September.
In 2016, Bisbee earned the title of Best Historic Small Town in both Sunset periodical and a USA Today online reader poll.
Jen Luria, director of tourism in Bisbee, credited the power of civil media and comedian Doug Stanhope in the USA Today win. July 3, 2016 was declared "Killer Termites Day" after Doug Stanhope's tenacious civil media followers, The Killer Termites, persistently voted for Bisbee in the online poll. Naco and Bisbee Junction Naco, Arizona, is a small unincorporated border improve some three miles south of the San Jose precinct of Bisbee.
Bisbee Junction (formerly Osborn or Osborn Junction) is positioned four miles south of Warren.
It was originally a barns siding where ore trains from the Bisbee mines joined with the chief Southern Pacific Railroad line.
The Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden was positioned in Bisbee Junction.
The Mexican border at Naco is 11 miles (18 km) south of the center of Bisbee.
Natural vegetation around Bisbee has a semi-desert appearance with shrubby acacia, oak and the like, along with cacti, grass, ocotillo and yucca.
A several higher-elevation trees such as blue spruce and white fir are burgeoning fairly well in Bisbee.
Bisbee has the typical semi-arid climate (Koppen BSk) of the upland Mountain West.
Summer days are warm to hot and dry before the monsoon brings the wettest season from July to September with 10.65 inches (270.5 mm) of Bisbee's total annual rainfall of 18.63 inches (473.2 mm), often with harsh thunderstorms.
Climate data for Bisbee, Arizona An analysis of United States Enumeration Bureau data by researchers at The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law found that, on a proportional basis, Bisbee had more gay couples living together than anywhere else in the state.
Bisbee is governed via the mayor-council system.
The City of Bisbee administers the Bisbee Bus; services are directed by the City of Douglas' Douglas Rides. Bisbee Municipal Airport The Phelps Dodge General Office Building, a National Historic Landmark, is now the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum The Thomas Ranch, a family-owned and directed beef cattle ranch since 1902, the year Bisbee was incorporated Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum Bisbee joined with Clifton in forming a cricket team that travelled to Santa Monica, California, in 1908 to play the Santa Monica Cricket Club in two games overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the grounds of the Polo Field.
Semi-Professional: Bisbee Kings (2006-) Baseball, Bisbee Killer Termites (2015-) Baseball, Tucson Saguaros (2016-) Baseball Historic Old Bisbee at evening, 2008 Jance has a series of mystery novels featuring a woman sheriff, Joanna Brady, which is set in Bisbee and the encircling desert-mountain-border areas.
In Clive Cussler's novel, The Chase (2007), Bisbee is one of the suburbs robbed by the "Butcher Bandit".
Author Elmore Leonard's 1961 novel Hombre and its film adaptation were centered on a stagecoach bound for Bisbee.
Author Betsy Thornton's mystery novels, including her Chloe Newcombe series, are all set in Bisbee (thinly disguised as Dudley) and the encircling areas. Bisbee is featured in the 1957 film, 3:10 to Yuma, and its 2007 remake.
The 1955 movie Violent Saturday, with Victor Mature and Lee Marvin, was filmed in and around Bisbee, and features many scenes of the downtown.
In Young Guns II (1990), Pinkerton agents drag reformed outlaw Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) from a New York City classroom; this scene was filmed in Bisbee's historic district.
Confidential (1997), actress Kim Basinger plays Lynn Bracken, a Veronica Lake-type beauty originally from Bisbee.
William Shatner filmed his low-budget Groom Lake (2000) in and around Bisbee, using many small-town inhabitants as extras.
Stephen King's Desperation (2006), a TV movie based on his 1996 novel Desperation, was primarily filmed in Lowell borough, with other sequences in Old Bisbee, the city's outskirts, and Tucson, Arizona.
The song "Bisbee Blue" was encompassed on the 2006 Calexico album, Garden Ruin.
John Craigie has a song about Bisbee on his 2015 album Working On My Farewell.
The 1956-1958 TV series, Sheriff of Cochise, was set in and around Bisbee, legal seat of Cochise County. The ROTOR help them read a town sign so the inhabitants know where they live: Bisbee, Arizona.
In a 2005 Supernatural season 1 episode, "Skin", Dean Winchester's fake identity is as a police officer from Bisbee, Arizona.
On the sitcom Home Improvement, was born in Bisbee in 1942 Jake La - Motta ("The Raging Bull"), prizefighter, has made Bisbee one of his homes in retirement Jack Williamson, science-fiction writer, born April 29, 1908, in Bisbee Bisbee, looking east, about 1909 List of historic properties in Bisbee, Arizona Warren Bisbee Railway "Bisbee Deportation of 1917".
Bisbee 1000 Stairs site Archived October 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine..
"11th Annual Bisbee Blues Festival - September 11th - 13th, 2015".
"Bisbee titled best historic small town by USA TODAY readers".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Bisbee city, Arizona".
"BISBEE, ARIZONA - Climate Summary".
"Census: Bisbee is most friendly to gay couples".
"Bisbee, AZ - Official Website".
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City of Bisbee official website Gallery of mineral specimens, from the Bisbee exhibit at the 2008 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show "Treasures of the Queen" - Bisbee Mineral Exhibit at Uof - A, through Sept.
Cities in Arizona - Populated places established in 1880 - Cities in Cochise County, Arizona - County seats in Arizona - Industrial Workers of the World - Mining communities in Arizona - Company suburbs in Arizona - Cochise County conflict - 1902 establishments in Arizona Territory - Bisbee, Arizona - Geological type localities
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