Gleeson

Rank in Arizona: #316of 727 ranked
Overall score: Score 41.3 out of 100medium confidence
Category: Historic Site

Gleeson is a ghost town in south-eastern Cochise County, Arizona, at an estimated elevation of 4,924 feet above sea level. It was first settled as Turquoise in the 1870s, in what was then Arizona Territory, and was later re-established as Gleeson in 1900.

Where it is

Gleeson 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 Gleeson, 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

Record last verified 2026-08-12.

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