0.5 miles away
O.K. Corral
Tombstone's O.K. Corral, a former horse corral and National Historic Landmark, stages a daily re-enactment of its namesake gunfight.
Boothill Graveyard
A Tombstone graveyard of at least 250 interments, used after 1883 only for the burial of outlaws and a few others.
- Rank in Arizona
- #82of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 52.6 out of 100medium confidence
- Most looked up
- Aprilby Wikipedia readers
- Category
- Historic Site
Boothill Graveyard is a small graveyard in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, holding at least 250 interments. Also known as the Old City Cemetery, it was used after 1883 only for the burial of outlaws and a few others, and it had a separate Jewish cemetery nearby. The name Boot Hill refers to the number of men who died with their boots on. Among the pioneer Boot Hill cemeteries of the Old West the Tombstone graveyard is among the best known, and it is one of the town's most visited attractions. It is the subject of The Ballad of Boot Hill by Johnny Cash.
Where it is
Boothill Graveyard is a historic site near Tombstone, in Cochise County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Boothill Graveyard, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://tombstoneboothill.com(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Nearby attractions
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Schieffelin Hall
An 1881 adobe opera house, theatre and meeting hall at Tombstone, described as the largest standing adobe structure in the South-West.0.6 miles away
Rose Tree Museum
Rose Tree Museum, in Tombstone, Arizona, is said to house the world's largest rose tree alongside its historical exhibits.
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Tombstone Historic District
A National Historic Landmark district in Tombstone, a boom-and-bust mining town, taking in the O.K. Corral of the 1881 gunfight.
0.6 miles away
Bird Cage Theatre
A former theatre in Tombstone that operated intermittently from December 1881 to 1894, and was leased as a coffee shop from 1934.
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Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park
The 1882 Cochise County courthouse in Tombstone, now a museum and the first Arizona state park to open.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Tombstone
- County
- Cochise County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 52.6 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 46.2
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- tombstoneboothill.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 31.7201, -110.0700
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12