Huachuca City is the small town at the north exit of Fort Huachuca. This map prints the Huachuca City Activity Center, the Huachuca City Community Center, the Huachuca City Lions Club, Hunt Park and McCray Park, with the Babacomari River giving shape to the land.
Huachuca City is a town in southwestern Cochise County.
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. By the Census Bureau’s count the town covers 2.8 square miles, all of it land, and 1,626 people lived here at the 2020 census.
A railroad stop that grew with the fort
Huachuca City started as a stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad, on a line that ran between Tombstone and Patagonia and no longer operates. When Fort Huachuca reopened in 1954, the area began to grow, and the community tried on several names, Campstone Station, Sunset City and Huachuca Vista, before it settled on Huachuca City. It incorporated in 1958. Today the fort is the town’s major employer, and the city of Sierra Vista and Fort Huachuca lie along its southern border. The town’s page says tourism is a major business here because Tombstone and Kartchner Caverns State Park are close by. State Route 90 runs 23 miles north to Interstate 10 near Benson, and the town runs its own bus, Huachuca City Transit, between Huachuca City and Sierra Vista.
The fort next door is older than the town by a long way. Captain Samuel Marmaduke Whitside founded it as Camp Huachuca in 1877, choosing a spot at the base of the Huachuca Mountains with sheltering hills and a perennial stream, and it became a fort in 1882. From 1913 to 1933 it was the base of the Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, a regiment of African American soldiers. From 1916 to 1917 the post was commanded by Charles Young, the first African American to be promoted to colonel, and during World War II the 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions, made up of African American troops, trained at the fort. Fort Huachuca was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, in part as the site of the Buffalo Soldiers, and the Fort Huachuca Museum on Old Post puts special emphasis on their story. Since its reopening the fort has turned to electronic warfare and intelligence, and it’s home to the United States Army Intelligence Center.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: Edgewood St, Gila Ave, Skyline Dr, E Hunt Rd, W Mustang Rd, W Ivory Rd, Ranch Rd, Pershing St, N Huachuca Blvd and S Huachuca Blvd.
Parks and the river
The Babacomari River, also spelled Babocomari, is a major tributary of the upper San Pedro River. It begins in the Sonoita Basin near Elgin and flows east for about 25 miles before it joins the San Pedro just south of the Fairbank Historic Townsite, inside the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. It drains about 310 square miles, including the northern Huachuca Mountains, and riparian trees line its main channel, with small marshy grasslands along the way. In town, Hunt Park and McCray Park are printed by name. Gordon W. Leffingwell Park has its place on the sheet too, and so do the Activity Center, the Community Center and the Lions Club.
This map of Huachuca City 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 Huachuca City home, and KNOWOL created it in 2026 to show the town as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Huachuca City map.
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