Douglas faces Agua Prieta across the Mexican border, and Whitewater Draw crosses the line between them, where it becomes the Rio Agua Prieta. This map prints Whitewater Draw and the Rio Agua Prieta, the Gadsden Hotel, the Grand Theatre, the Douglas Historic District and the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Passenger Depot-Douglas, with Fifth Street Park among the streets. Look for the Center for Academic Success #4 as well.
Douglas is in Cochise County, in the Sulphur Springs Valley near the southeastern corner of Arizona.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief of the landscape comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. The Gadsden Hotel, the Douglas Historic District and the Douglas Municipal Airport are on the National Register of Historic Places, and we checked them against National Park Service records. Douglas had 16,531 people at the 2020 census.
A smelter town for Bisbee
Spain built the Presidio de San Bernardino a few miles east of today’s Douglas in 1776 and gave it up four years later. The town itself began as an American smelter town, built to treat the copper ores of nearby Bisbee, and it was named for Dr. James Douglas, a mining engineer born in Quebec City who made his fortune in the copper mines of Bisbee and Sonora and brought new metallurgical methods to copper mining. Douglas was incorporated in 1905. The Calumet and Arizona Company smelter went up in 1902, and the Copper Queen ran its own smelter here from 1904 until 1931, when Phelps Dodge bought the Calumet and Arizona and took over its plant. The Douglas Reduction Works closed in 1987, and the smelter’s stacks came down in January 1991.
G Avenue
The Douglas Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1985, takes in historic buildings along G Avenue. The Brophy Building of 1907, on G Avenue too, was built by William H. Brophy in partnership with James Douglas. The Gadsden Hotel opened in the town’s first years, named for the Gadsden Purchase, and its five stories and 160 rooms became a home away from home for cattlemen, ranchers, miners and businessmen. After a fire, the El Paso architect Henry Trost rebuilt it in 1929. Its lobby has a white Italian marble staircase, four marble columns and stained glass skylights the full length of the room, and a stained glass mural of the Southwest desert by Ralph Baker, who studied under Louis Comfort Tiffany, runs 42 feet across the mezzanine. Thornton Wilder stopped there in May 1962 for a car repair and stayed two months, because he liked the hotel and the area.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: W Leake Rd, N Biplane Rd, N Air Terminal Rd, E Calle Alta Vis, E Cipriana Dr, E Cipriano Dr, N San Mateo Dr, E Madrone Dr, E San Pateo Dr, E Old Ranch Rd, San Jose Dr, Stallion Rd.
More street names, A to Z
Applewhite Dr, Cam Coronado, Canyon Rd, Chino Rd, Copper Dr, E Ash Ave, E Bagwell Rd, E Basque Ln, E Chula Vista Dr, E Durango Ave, E Geronimo Trl, E Golf Course Rd, E Granada Rd, E Gregory Rd, E International Ave, E La Demanda Dr, E Madrid St, E Romans Rd, E Tarea Ct, La Cima, La de Manda Dr, Lincoln Ave, N Aldama Dr, N Hermosillo Rd, N San Luis Drispo Dr, N Stewart Ranch Rd, Oak Ave, Pirtle Ave, Pla Espuelas, Rose Way, Trogon Trl, W Denham Rd, W Glenn Rd, W International Ave, W Oak Ave, W Parnal Ave, W Rochin Rd.
The Grand Theatre opened in 1919, designed by M. Eugene Durfee, and the town page calls it the largest theater between Los Angeles and San Antonio in its day. Ginger Rogers, Anna Pavlova and John Philip Sousa all performed on its stage, and it held a tea room, a candy store and a barbershop, along with movies and Douglas High School graduations. The building has suffered serious damage over the years, and it’s being restored to its original condition. The El Paso and Southwestern Railroad depot, built in 1913, carried copper east to big manufacturers, and the town page calls it one of the finest examples of early twentieth-century railway architecture. It’s the Douglas police station today.
First international airport
The Douglas Municipal Airport was established in 1928 at the east end of 10th Avenue, and the list of the city’s historic places calls it the first international airport in the United States. It later trained military pilots in World War II, and Amelia Earhart stopped there on a cross-country flight. Whitewater Draw was first known as the Rio de Agua Prieta, Spanish for “river of dark water.” It starts high in Rucker Canyon in the Chiricahua Mountains and flows through the Sulphur Springs Valley into Mexico at Douglas and Agua Prieta, and the Mormon Battalion camped at a spring on its course on December 5, 1846.
This Douglas map is a good addition to an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of the area. It’s made for anyone who calls Douglas home, from G Avenue to the banks of Whitewater Draw, and KNOWOL created it in 2026 to show the city as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Douglas map.
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