0.6 miles away

Old Post Cemetery
Old Post Cemetery, in Sierra Vista, Arizona, holds the graves of Apache Wars cavalry, Buffalo Soldiers, and Apache scouts, some marked only 'Unknown'.
- Rank in Arizona
- #575of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 25.5 out of 100low confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
Old Post Cemetery is a historic site in Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, containing the graves of US Army cavalry troops and Buffalo Soldiers who fought in the Apache Wars, along with several Apache scouts and their wives. Gravestones marked 'Unknown' mark the burials of victims of Apache attacks whose remains were too badly mutilated to identify.
Where it is
Old Post Cemetery is a historic site near Sierra Vista, 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 Old Post Cemetery, 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
- Reservoir Hill Overlook, in Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, gives views over the fort and the neighbouring Whetstone Mountains.
0.7 miles away
Fort Huachuca Museum
Fort Huachuca Museum, in Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, is a museum that includes a small gift shop.
4.5 miles away
Huachuca Mountains
A range in south-eastern Arizona rising to 9,466 feet at Miller Peak, divided between the Coronado National Forest and Fort Huachuca.
6.2 miles away
Garden Canyon
A Cochise County canyon near Sierra Vista with Apache and Hohokam pictograph sites, dated to around 1700 CE and 400–1250 CE respectively.6.4 miles away
Henry F Hauser Museum
A small Sierra Vista museum of historic artefacts and photographs from the surrounding Cochise County region.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Sierra Vista
- 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
- 31.5484, -110.3760
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12