0.0 miles away
Cochise County Courthouse
Bisbee's Art Deco county courthouse, designed by Roy Place, with copper doors and New Deal-era artwork including a hardware relief map.
Copper Miner
A 1935 New Deal sculpture in Bisbee, cast in concrete and copper, modelled on local resident Lee Petrovitch to honour the town's miners.
- Rank in Arizona
- #527of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 25.5 out of 100low confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
Copper Miner is a Depression-era sculpture in Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, created under the New Deal by the sculptor R. Phillips Sanderson and completed in 1935. It is cast in concrete and covered with a thin layer of copper. Bisbee native Lee Petrovitch posed for the work, which commemorates the town's copper miners.
Where it is
Copper Miner is a historic site near Bisbee, 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 Copper Miner, 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 low 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
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
Nearby attractions
0.4 miles away
Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
Bisbee's mining history museum occupies the Phelps Dodge General Office Building, a National Historic Landmark.
0.5 miles away
Copper Queen Mine
A Bisbee copper mine worked from the 1880s on an orebody running 23 per cent copper, once the most productive in Arizona.
0.5 miles away
Muheim Heritage House Museum
A fully restored 1898-1900 house museum in Bisbee named for merchant Joseph Muheim, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1.3 miles away
Lavender Pit
A former Bisbee copper mine that produced about 600,000 tons of copper from 1950 to 1974, viewable from a roadside platform.
3.3 miles away
Warren Ballpark
A 1909 mining-company ballpark in Bisbee, where 1,300 miners seized in the Bisbee Deportation were held in 1917.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Bisbee
- County
- Cochise County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 25.5 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- No data
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- low
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 31.4431, -109.9204
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12