Tombstone Arizona

Except for an ill-fated attempt to convert the courthouse into a hotel during the 1940s, the building stood vacant until 1955. When the Tombstone Restoration Commission acquired it, they began the courthouse rehabilitation and the development as a histiorical museum that has continued to operate as a state park since 1959. It features exhibits and thousands of artifacts which tell of Tombstone's colorful past. ... [Read More]

Fire Insurance Map (Reason): American Treasures of the Library of Congress
As the Tombstone map illustrates, fire insurance maps provide a block-by-block inventory of the buildings in the built-up or congested parts of towns. The outline or footprint of each building is indicated, and the buildings are color coded to show the construction material (pink for brick; yellow for wood; brown for adobe). Numbers inside the lower right corner of each building indicate how many stories the building had, while the numbers outside the building on the street front refer to the street addresses, allowing researchers to correlate these locations with census records and city directories. Individual dwellings are marked with "D" or "Dwg," but the residents or owners are not identified. Factories, businesses (such as hotels, saloons, liveries), churches, schools, and other public buildings (city hall, assay office, library) are labeled by name. ... [Read More]

Arizona Became a New Territory
When silver was discovered at Tombstone, Arizona, in 1877, nearly 7,000 people came to the territory. Four years later, the rough frontier town became the site of the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral. By the 1880's the Arizona territory was bustling with fortune seekers from all around the world. ... [Read More]

Field Sites
The climate at Tombstone can be classified as semiarid or steppe, hot, with a dry winter, but is quite close to being an arid or desert climate.  Mean annual temperature at Tombstone is 17.6 degrees C and mean annual precipitation is approximately 330 mm. ...

The SWRC currently operates instrumented field sites at the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed near Tombstone, AZ and the Santa Rita Research Range south of Tucson, AZ. ...

There is evidence that much of the area around Tombstone was grassland less than 100 years ago; but now shrubs dominate about 2/3 of the watershed. Creosote, tarbush, mortonia, and whitethorn are the most common shrubs.  The remaining 1/3 is still grassland, dominated mainly by black grama, curly mesquite grass, and tobosa grass ... [Read More]

Shoot-Out in Tombstone
CARRYING WEAPONS IN THE CITY OF TOMBSTONEWAS IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW. This law has been referred to asWyatt's law, but it couldn't be farther from the truth. In 1880,the City council received a motion from Councilman Gray to createan ordinance against carrying concealed weapons. The motion passedand became Ordinance # 9 which was later revised to include allguns not just concealed. The Earp brothers, Virgil the City Marshal,Wyatt and Morgan with their friend, Doc Holliday decided to bringtheir unsettled dispute and enforce the law with a few men thathad been labeled "the Cowboys". This group of men includedIke and Billy Clanton, locals living on a ranch south of Tombstone,Tom and Frank McLaury who lived east of Tombstone twenty somemiles, close to Soldier's hole in the Sulphur Springs Valley anda roustabout by the name of Billy Claibourne. ... [Read More]

Arizona: Hispanic Local History and Genealogy in the United States - Bibliographies & Guides - Local History & Genealogy Reading Room (Library of Congress)
Index to the Tombstone, Arizona, Daily Nugget . Compiled and edited by Lonnie E. Underhill. 1st ed. Tucson, Ariz.: Roan Horse Press, 1984. viii, 421 leaves. Ill. ...

Index to the Tombstone, Arizona, Weekly Nugget . Compiled and edited by Lonnie E. Underhill. 1st ed. Tucson, Ariz.: Roan Horse Press, 1982. viii, 62 leaves. ... [Read More]

Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed
Located in SE Arizona surrounding the historic city of Tombstone, the 150 sq. km.Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed was established in the early 1950's to study the roleof watershed treatments on downstream water yield. The site was deemed typical of theblack grama grass-brush dominated areas of southern New Mexico and Arizona. ...

In addition to hydrological measurements, basic meteorological data (dailyprecipitation, daily temperature maximums and minimums) for the National Weather ServiceTombstone, Arizona station has been maintained by SWRC personnel since the early 1960's. ... [Read More]

Walnut Gulch Watershed
Studies on the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed at Tombstone, Arizona are part of the comprehensive research initiated in 1951 by the Research Division of the Soil Conservation Service.  After considerable screening of prospective areas in Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, active research was begun in 1953 on the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed. ... [Read More]

Experimental Watershed Intro
Research conducted at the Southwest Watershed Research Center is supported by outdoor laboratories at the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed near Tombstone, Arizona (since 1953) and at the Santa Rita Experimental Range south of Tucson (since 1975).  The Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed is the most densely gaged and monitored semiarid rangeland watershed in the world and is critical to improving scientific understanding of semiarid ecosystems. ... [Read More]

The Building of Tombstone Courthouse
After the last county office was moved from Tombstone to Bisbeein 1931, the courthouse remained predominately unoccupied until1955 when the Tombstone Restoration Commission acquired it andtransformed it into a historical museum. In 1959 the State ofArizona accepted the site and placed it in the State Park systemfor operation and management. The Tombstone Courthouse is presentlyoperated and managed as a Historic State Park housing displaysand thousands of artifacts that tell of Tombstone and CochiseCounty's colorful yesterdays. ... [Read More]