Bisbee, Arizona
| Bisbee, Arizona | |
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Main Street, Bisbee
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| Motto: "An American Original" | |
 Location in Cochise County and the state of Arizona |
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 Bisbee, Arizona
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| Coordinates: 31°25′6″N 109°53′52″W / 31.41833°N 109.89778°WCoordinates: 31°25′6″N 109°53′52″W / 31.41833°N 109.89778°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| County | Cochise |
| Incorporated | January 9, 1902 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ron Oertle |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5.2 sq mi (13.4 km2) |
| • Land | 5.2 sq mi (13.4 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 5,538 ft (1,688 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 5,575 |
| • Estimate (2014) | 5,308 |
| • Density | 1,080/sq mi (417.1/km2) |
| Time zone | MST (no daylight saving time) (UTC-7) |
| ZIP code | 85603 |
| Area code | 520 |
| FIPS code | 04-06260 |
| Website | City of Bisbee |
Bisbee is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, 92 miles (148 km) southeast of Tucson. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city was 5,575. The city is the county seat of Cochise County.
Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of the financial backers of the adjacent Copper Queen Mine.
In 1929, the county seat was moved from Tombstone to Bisbee, where it remains.
Mining in the Mule Mountains proved quite successful: in the early 20th century the population of Bisbee soared. Incorporated in 1902, by 1910 its population had swelled to 9,019, and it sported a constellation of suburbs, including Warren, Lowell, and San Jose, some of which had been founded on their own (ultimately less successful) mines. In 1917, open-pit mining was successfully introduced to meet the copper demand during World War I.
A high quality turquoise promoted as Bisbee Blue was a by-product of the copper mining. Many high-quality mineral specimens have come from Bisbee area mines and are to be found in museum collections worldwide. Some of these minerals include: Cuprite, aragonite, wulfenite, malachite, azurite, and galena.
Miners attempted to organize to gain better working conditions and wages. In 1917, the Phelps Dodge Corporation, using private police, transported at gun point over 1,000 striking miners out of town to Hermanas, New Mexico, due to allegations that they were members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW); the company wanted to prevent unionization. Earlier that year, industry police conducted the Jerome Deportation, a similar event to expel striking miners.
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