Sunizona Arizona Map

About Sunizona, Arizona

Sunizona is a locality in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. It is a small community with a population of 233. The population density is 9.8 people per km². Sunizona is located at 31.8855°N, 109.6332°W. It observes the Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) timezone. ZIP code: 85625.

Sunizona stretches across a high, arid expanse where the earth holds the heat of the day long after the sun has retreated behind the jagged silhouette of the distant Chiricahua Mountains. It lies 37.7 miles north of Douglas, AZ (from Douglas, AZ: bearing 350°T), and is situated 34.1 miles north-northeast of Bisbee. Ash Creek carves a shallow, intermittent path through the brush nearby, its banks often dry and bleached by the relentless sun until the summer monsoons bring a brief, violent vitality to the basin. Beyond the immediate scrub, the terrain transitions into vast, open plains where the light at dusk turns the dust to a bruised violet, casting long, thin shadows that seem to stretch toward the horizon. Two miles away, the expanse of State Trust Land offers an undisturbed reach of native grasses and ocotillo, preserving a quiet, stark solitude that defines the physical character of the region.

Sunizona persists as a quiet node of agricultural industry, its economy tethered to the rhythm of the seasons and the stubborn vitality of the high desert soil. The legacy of homesteading persists in the scattered, functional architecture of the area, where the pace of life is dictated by the maintenance of fences and the watchful management of water resources. Residents look toward Brushy Tank as a modest anchor in the landscape, a point of reference in a terrain that demands patience and a pragmatic approach to survival. Life here is distilled into the essentials: the clarity of the morning air, the sound of wind moving through dry stalks, and the enduring, mile-deep silence that settles over the land once the machinery of the day has finally stilled.

About This Sunizona Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sunizona, Arizona. Coordinates: 31.885494, -109.63322. 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 Sunizona includes the ZIP code (85625), telephone area code (520), county seat of Cochise County (Bisbee), and school district assignment (Ash Creek Elementary 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.