8.3 miles away
San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area
A 57,000-acre BLM conservation area in Cochise County protecting 40 miles of the upper San Pedro River, designated by Congress in 1988.
Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site
A National Historic Landmark on the San Pedro River where Paleo-Indians killed mammoths 11,000 to 12,000 years before the present.
- Rank in Arizona
- #99of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 51.3 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
The Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site is an archaeological site in Cochise County, southern Arizona, on the west bank of the San Pedro River 1.5 miles south-west of the town of Hereford. Its significance rests on evidence that mammoths were killed there by Paleo-Indians 11,000 to 12,000 years before the present. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1967, and in 1988 Mr and Mrs Lehner gave it to the Bureau of Land Management for the benefit and education of the public.
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
No official visitor count is published for Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site, 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: Wikidata(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
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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.11 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.
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Murray Springs Clovis Site
A Clovis hunting camp near the San Pedro River, with five excavated kill and butchery sites dating to about 11,000 BP.
11 miles away
Camp Naco
A 1917 border fort near Bisbee, said to be the only one remaining on the US-Mexico line, partly restored and partly fenced off.
11 miles away
Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
Bisbee's mining history museum occupies the Phelps Dodge General Office Building, a National Historic Landmark.
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