Ruby
Ruby is a ghost town in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States. It is situated near the base of Montana Peak in the Pajarita Wilderness, roughly 25 miles west of Rio Rico, and 7 miles north of the Mexico–United States border. Originally named Montana Camp, the town was founded in 1877 as a mining camp.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Tubac
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 47.6 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 35.2
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 31.4611, -111.2375
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Ruby is a historic site near Tubac, in Santa Cruz 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 47.6 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.
Nearby attractions
15 miles away
Tubac Center for the Arts
The local artists' cooperative organizes individual and group art exhibits, workshops, and other events, and has a gift shop.
15 miles away
Calabasas
Calabasas (Spanish for "pumpkins") is a former populated place or ghost town, within the census-designated place of Rio Rico, a suburb of Nogales in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States.
16 miles away
Calabazas Mission
Mission San Cayetano de Calabazas, also known as Calabasas, is a Spanish Mission in the Sonoran Desert, located near present-day Tumacacori, Arizona, United States.
17 miles away
Pete Kitchen Ranch
The Pete Kitchen Ranch was established on Potrero Creek near Nogales, Arizona Territory, about 1862, reputedly the first permanent American ranch in Arizona. The site, which had good access to water, had been inhabited in prehistory and had been visited by Juan Bautista de Anza in October 1774, who called it Las Lagunas, a name also used by Kitchen. By the 1870s, the ranch was producing substantial crops and livestock that yielded an income of $10,000 a year.