0.1 miles away
Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
Bisbee's mining history museum occupies the Phelps Dodge General Office Building, a National Historic Landmark.
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.
- Rank in Arizona
- #175of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 47.3 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
The Copper Queen Mine was a copper mine in Cochise County, Arizona, whose development drew the town of Bisbee up around it during the 1880s. Its orebody ran at 23 per cent copper, an extraordinarily high grade. Phelps Dodge acquired the mine in 1885, and by the early 1900s it was the most productive copper mine in Arizona. Copper mining in the district declined through the 1930s and 1940s, but the Copper Queen continued to be worked by the open-pit process in the years after the Second World War. Phelps Dodge closed it in 1985 as returns fell. The old workings are open to guided tours.
Where it is
Copper Queen Mine 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 Queen Mine, 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: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.queenminetour.com/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
More photographs
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Nearby attractions
0.4 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.0.5 miles away
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.
0.5 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.
0.8 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.
2.9 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
- 47.3 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 34.5
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- queenminetour.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 31.4405, -109.9132
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12