0.0 miles away
Charleston
A ghost town on the San Pedro River in Cochise County that milled silver ore from Tombstone in the 1870s and 1880s.
San Pedro Valley
A valley running 140 miles north from Sonora into Arizona, carrying the San Pedro River to Winkelman.
- Rank in Arizona
- #20of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 64.2 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Natural Landmark
The San Pedro Valley begins 10 miles south of the border between the United States and Mexico and runs 140 miles north through Arizona. The San Pedro River flows from the Mexican state of Sonora through Cochise, Pima, Graham and Pinal counties to Winkelman.
Where it is
San Pedro Valley is a natural landmark near Tombstone, in Cochise County. It is one of the natural landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for San Pedro Valley, 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.
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Nearby attractions
0.9 miles away
Brunckow's Cabin
A ruined cabin south-west of Tombstone where at least twenty-one people were killed between 1860 and 1890, many buried on the site.
4.5 miles away
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.
6.1 miles away
Fairbank
A ghost town on the San Pedro River, settled in 1881 as the nearest rail stop to Tombstone and now inside a conservation area.
6.3 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 1988.7.4 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
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Tombstone
- County
- Cochise County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 64.2 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 71.6
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 31.6358, -110.1730
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12