Tombstone, AZ (Geographic Keyword)

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Excavation of Sidewalk at Tombstone Courthouse (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Hollis Cook.

As part of an ongoing effort to bury the utility lines at Tombstone Courthouse State Park, helping to recreate the 1800's aesthetics, in April of 1988 a trench for a telephone line conduit was dug (east to west) in the northeast yard at the Courthouse. Located four feet N.E. of the corner of the east wing, the trench encountered what appeared to be possible (although rather small) flagstone pavers. The stones were not broken by the construction and were placed in position to await further...


Historic Resources Inventory and Report of Tombstone, Arizona (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Johns & Strittmatter Inc..

Four sets of mountains can be seen from Tombstone; the Dragoon Mountains to the northeast, the Mule Mountains to the southeast, the Huachucas to the southwest and Whetstones to the northwest. From these mountains, rivulets form an alluvial plain and feed into the San Pedro River. The San Pedro originates in Sonora, Mexico from a point, Casa de San Pedro, in the Sierra Madre Occidental. The river then flows north to feed the Gila which in tum joins the Colorado at Yuma Crossing; the Colorado then...