Fellow Army scout Al Sieber reportedly warned Ed Schieffelin that the only rock he’d find out here would be his own tombstone. His first silver claim was named Tombstone, and the town took its name from that claim. This map of Tombstone prints Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park, The Bird Cage Theatre, Boothill Graveyard, the Pioneer Home Museum, Tombstone High School and Reading Station, with Boot Hill, Comstock Hill and the Tombstone Hills giving shape to the land.
Tombstone is a city in Cochise County, about 30 miles from the Mexican border.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave modern data the look of a vintage atlas. The shaded relief of Boot Hill, Comstock Hill and the Tombstone Hills comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park was confirmed against the National Park Service and the National Register of Historic Places. The town sits on a mesa 4,539 feet above sea level in the San Pedro River valley, with the Huachuca and Whetstone mountains to the west and the Mules and the Dragoons to the east, and the 2020 census counted 1,308 people here.
Ed Schieffelin’s silver
The land was home to the Hohokam, who lived in southern Arizona for more than 2,000 years. Ed Schieffelin was an Army scout during the Apache Wars, and while stationed at what became Fort Huachuca he went looking for ore. In 1877, working the hills east of the San Pedro River, Schieffelin found silver in a dry wash on a high plateau called Goose Flats, and his first claim, filed that September, was named Tombstone. With his brother Al and their partner Richard Gird he formed a mining company and built a stamp mill near the river, and in March 1879 a new town site was surveyed on Goose Flats, a mesa above the Goodenough Mine, with lots on Allen Street selling for $5 apiece. The town took its name from the first claim.
Tombstone grew fast. The town’s page calls its district the most productive silver mining district in Arizona; its mines yielded 32 million troy ounces of silver, more than any other mining district in Arizona. By 1881 there were fine restaurants, a bowling alley, four churches, a school, two banks, three newspapers and an ice cream parlor, and the Tombstone Epitaph, first published on May 1, 1880, is the oldest continually published newspaper in Arizona, by its page’s account. Nellie Cashman, the Irish-born businesswoman known as the “Angel of Tombstone,” ran stores and a restaurant here, raised money to build Sacred Heart Catholic Church and nursed the sick when an epidemic swept the town. The mines struck water in the early 1880s, and after the pumping plant burned in 1886 the boom faded. Tombstone kept going partly because it stayed the Cochise County seat until 1929. Today tourism keeps it busy; the town’s page cites a 2005 count of about 450,000 visitors a year, and it calls Tombstone best known as the site of the 1881 gunfight near the O.K. Corral, which is reenacted for visitors. Helldorado Days, first held in 1929, celebrates the wild 1880s.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: Clay's Ranch Rd, W Desert Meadow Rd, W Cilley Rd, W Cholla, Galo Dr, W Rainbow Rd, E Desert Meadow Rd, W Fuller Ranch Rd, E Fuller Ranch Rd, E Reed Rd, Reed Rd, Wilson Ranch Rd.
More street names, A to Z
Cll Escondida, E Behan Rd, E Clanton Rd, E Holiday Dr, E Monument Rd, E Pinto Cir, E Rainbow Rd, E Sunset Pl, Gila Dr, Gleeson Rd, Granada Pl, Jefferson Davis Memorial Hwy, Jefferson Dr, Monument Dr, Mountain View Rd, N Cactus Dr, N Lonely Ln, N Yellowjacket Way, N Yucca Cir, Pinto Dr, Ranch Rd, Ridge Rd, Safford St, S Charleston Rd, Schieffelin Dr, Skyline Dr, S Oregon Trl, S Red Top Rd, Tombstone-Charleston Hwy, Via Loma Linda Dr, Via Serena, W Allen St, W Charleston Rd, W Louis St, W Moonlight Ln, W Moonlight Rd, W Randolph Way, W Schiefflin Monument Rd.
The courthouse, the halls and the rose
The red brick Cochise County courthouse was built in 1882 in the Victorian style, laid out in the shape of a cross, and it held the sheriff’s office, the county offices, courtrooms and a jail. Its page calls it the oldest courthouse still standing in Arizona. After the county seat moved to Bisbee it sat mostly empty until the Tombstone Restoration Commission took it over in 1955 and made it a museum, and in 1959 it became the first park to open under the new Arizona State Parks Board. It was listed on the National Register in 1972, and the whole Tombstone Historic District, about 42 acres of the old town, has been a National Historic Landmark since 1961. Schieffelin Hall, which Al Schieffelin and William Harwood built in 1881 as an opera house, opened that June with 450 seats on the floor and 125 in the gallery. Its page calls it the largest standing adobe structure in the southwestern United States, and it still hosts plays, city council meetings and the King Solomon Lodge #5. The Bird Cage Theatre opened on Allen Street in December 1881, where miners and cowboys came for variety acts, strongwoman feats and Cornish wrestling matches whose results were published in Britain.
In 1885 Mary Gee, a homesick bride from Scotland, planted a Lady Banksia rose cutting from home beside the boardinghouse where she and her husband lived. According to Guinness, it’s the world’s largest rosebush; by 2014 it covered more than 8,000 square feet of the Rose Tree Inn’s roof and trellis. Lorna Lockwood moved to Tombstone with her family in 1913 and graduated from Tombstone High School in 1920. She went on to the Arizona legislature and the bench, and as chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court in 1965 she became the first woman to serve as chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States. She counted as her most important opinion the 1973 ruling that upheld the right of a Native American living on a reservation to hold county office.
Around the map
Boothill Graveyard, first called the Tombstone Cemetery, lies at the northwest corner of town. The town’s page calls it one of the best known of the Old West’s Boot Hill cemeteries; more than 300 people are believed to be buried there, but only 205 are recorded, partly because some, especially Chinese and Jewish immigrants, were buried without a record, and many wooden markers were neglected or carried off as souvenirs. It closed in 1886 when the new city cemetery opened, and the three men killed in the 1881 gunfight lie there. The silver-bearing Tombstone Hills around the city formed where porphyry pushed up through a cap of limestone. The Pioneer Home Museum, Reading Station, Boot Hill and Comstock Hill have their places on the sheet as well.
This Tombstone map makes 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 Tombstone home, from Allen Street to Boothill, 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 Tombstone map.
Sources
- Tombstone, Arizona, Wikipedia
- Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park, Wikipedia
- Tombstone Historic District, Wikipedia
- Schieffelin Hall, Wikipedia
- Bird Cage Theatre, Wikipedia
- Boot Hill, Wikipedia
- The Tombstone Epitaph, Wikipedia
- Nellie Cashman, Wikipedia
- Helldorado, Wikipedia
- Lorna E. Lockwood, Wikipedia
