Dragoon Arizona Map

About Dragoon, Arizona

Dragoon is a locality in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. It is a small community with a population of 178. The population density is 36.4 people per km². Dragoon is located at 32.0281°N, 110.0387°W. It observes the Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) timezone. ZIP code: 85609.

Dragoon emerges from the high desert floor as a scattering of weathered structures pinned against the vast, pale expanse of the Arizona plains. It lies 36.2 miles north-northeast of Sierra Vista, AZ (from Sierra Vista, AZ: bearing 25°T), and is situated 15.6 miles east-northeast of Benson. The Dragoon Wash carves a shallow, dry-bitten path through the earth nearby, its intermittent course marking a landscape defined by the stark geometry of desert scrub and the jagged silhouette of the Dragoon Mountains standing six miles to the southeast. To the west, the terrain rises toward the rugged transition of Jordan Canyon, while the surrounding State Trust Land provides a buffer of unmanicured wilderness that stretches toward the horizon. The light here possesses a peculiar, thin clarity, bleaching the color from the dry grasses until the entire basin glows with the muted, dusty palette of sun-bleached stone and dormant brush.

Dragoon maintains a quiet, singular existence, its identity forged by the relentless passage of the railroad and the echoes of early prospecting that once drew travelers to this arid corridor. The local economy persists as a lean operation, tethered more to the slow rhythms of the land and the sporadic movement of freight than to the frantic pace of modern commerce. Residents here exist in a state of watchful patience, familiar with the nine-mile distance to the quiet waters of Packard Tank and the way the shadows lengthen across the gravel lots as the afternoon heat dissipates. There is a profound, almost heavy stillness that defines the day-to-day, a sense that Dragoon survives not by conquering the environment, but by yielding to the immense, indifferent scale of the terrain that surrounds it.

About This Dragoon Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Dragoon, Arizona. Coordinates: 32.028137, -110.03868. 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 Dragoon includes the ZIP code (85609), telephone area code (520), county seat of Cochise County (Bisbee), and school district assignment (Benson Unified School 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.