Bisbee Arizona Map

About Bisbee, Arizona

Bisbee is a locality in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,923. The population density is 367.2 people per km². Bisbee is located at 31.3980°N, 109.9318°W. It observes the Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) timezone. Bisbee is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 85603.

Bisbee clings to the steep, irregular slopes of Moon Canyon, where the architecture seems to defy the gravity of the arid landscape. It lies 17.0 miles east of Sierra Vista Southeast, AZ (from Sierra Vista Southeast, AZ: bearing 91°T), and is situated 10.0 miles east of Hereford. The houses are stacked in narrow, improbable tiers, their foundations anchored into the rock as if the buildings themselves were slowly emerging from the earth. A mile away, the summit of Quality Hill rises against the sky, providing a stark vertical contrast to the deep, weathered folds of the terrain. Nearby, the thin, seasonal trickle of Morales Creek marks the bottom of the drainage, while the quiet grounds of Old City Park offer a sparse, dry respite from the intensity of the sun. At dusk, the light catches the metallic dust of the hillsides, turning the gray slopes into a soft, bruised violet that lingers long after the shadows have claimed the lower streets.

Bisbee was forged by the immense appetite of the copper industry, which carved deep, jagged scars into the surrounding geology and dictated the layout of every winding, vertical thoroughfare. The economy, once tethered entirely to the extraction of wealth from the deep veins of the ground, has shifted into a slower, more deliberate cadence of art and preservation. Visitors now walk the same paths once traveled by miners, though the labor of the past has been replaced by the quiet maintenance of Victorian storefronts and the slow, steady pulse of a creative enclave. Life here operates on a different clock, measured by the long, dry afternoons and the way the air cools rapidly once the heat retreats behind the ridges. The legacy of the mines remains in the texture of the town, a tangible weight that keeps Bisbee grounded in its own unique, demanding history.

About This Bisbee Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bisbee, Arizona. Coordinates: 31.398036, -109.931834. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Bisbee includes the ZIP code (85603), telephone area code (520), county seat of Cochise County (Bisbee), and school district assignment (Bisbee Unified District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.