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  • City Description

    Bisbee is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, 82 miles (132 km) southeast of Tucson. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 6,177. The city is the county seat of Cochise County. Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of the financial backers of the adjacent Copper Queen Mine. In 1929, the county seat was moved from Tombstone, Arizona to Bisbee, where it remains. A syndicated television series which aired from 1956-1958, Sheriff of Cochise starring John Bromfield, was filmed in Bisbee. Mining in the Mule Mountains proved quite successful: in the early 20th century the population of Bisbee soared. Incorporated in 1902, by 1910 its population swelled to 9,019 and it sported a constellation of suburbs, including Warren, Lowell, and San Jose, some of which had been founded on their own (ultimately less successful) mines. In 1917, open pit mining was successfully introduced to meet the heavy copper demand due to World War I. High quality turquoise was a by-product of the copper mining and has been promoted as Bisbee Blue. Bisbee is noted for the astounding

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    City Contained By:

    • Cochise County
    • Arizona
    • United States of America

    City Contains:

    • Phelps Dodge General Office Building
    • Bisbee Historic District
    • Muheim House
    • Walter Douglas House

    Timezones:

    • Mountain Time Zone

    Size:

    • 12.4319429296 km squared

    City Featured in Films:

    • Fantasy:Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden
    • Cannonball Run II
    • Groom Lake
    • Million Dollar Mystery
    • Violent Saturday
    • Young Guns II
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