Charleston

Charleston is a ghost town in Cochise County, in the south-eastern part of Arizona. It was occupied from the late 1870s through the late 1880s, in what was then the Arizona Territory. It stood on the west bank of the San Pedro River, and its economy rested on the milling of silver ore mined at nearby Tombstone, carried out in the community of Millville directly across the river.

Where it is

Charleston 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 Charleston, 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.

Mentioned in

• Arizona's 27 ghost towns publish no visitor count, and 22 of them are still read about — Not one abandoned settlement in this database records an official visitor figure, yet together they drew 136,163 Wikipedia reads in 2024.

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://www.blm.gov/az/st/en/prog/cultural/millville.html(opens in a new tab)

Record last verified 2026-08-12.