8.3 miles away
San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area
The area provides opportunities for birdwatching, camping, hunting, hiking, fishing, biking and horseback riding.
Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site
The Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site is in southern Arizona (Cochise County) on the west bank of the San Pedro River 1.5 miles southwest of the town of Hereford. It is significant for its association with evidence that mammoths were killed here by Paleo-Indians 11,000 to 12,000 years before present. The Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1967.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Bisbee
- County
- Cochise County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Historic Landmark · National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 51.3 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 25.3
- Significance score
- 73.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 31.4333, -110.1000
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site 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
This place scores 51.3 out of 100, at medium confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Description: Wikipedia(opens in a new tab), used under CC BY-SA 4.0(opens in a new tab)
- 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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Copper Miner
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Murray Springs Clovis Site
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Camp Naco
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