Cochran, Arizona

Cochran, Arizona
—  Ghost town  —
Cochran, Arizona Location in the state of Arizona
Coordinates: 33°06′34″N 111°08′59″W / 33.10944°N 111.14972°W / 33.10944; -111.14972Coordinates: 33°06′34″N 111°08′59″W / 33.10944°N 111.14972°W / 33.10944; -111.14972
Country	United States
State	Arizona
County	Pinal
Founded	1905
Abandoned	1915
Named for	John S. Cochran, first postmaster[1]
Elevation[2]	1,640 ft (500 m)
Population (2009)
- Total	0
Time zone	MST (no DST) (UTC-7)
Post Office opened	January 3, 1905
Post Office closed	January 15, 1915

Cochran is a ghost town in Pinal County in the U.S. state of Arizona. The town was settled in 1905, in what was then the Arizona Territory.

History

Named after its first postmaster, John S. Cochran, the small mining camp also served as a stop on the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway. The post office was established on January 3, 1905, and was discontinued on January 15, 1915. At its peak, the town was home to approximately one hundred residents, and housed a general store and a boardinghouse, among other establishments.^[1]

Apart from a few building foundations in the town center, and the train tracks that still run by the edge of the now-abandoned town site, Cochran's last and most notable remains are a set of five largely intact beehive coke ovens.

Abandoned coke ovens near Cochran

Geography

Cochran is located about 15 miles (24 km) east of Florence, Arizona at 33°06′34″N 111°08′59″W / 33.10944°N 111.14972°W / 33.10944; -111.14972.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Sherman, James E.; Barbara H. Sherman (1969). "Cochran". Ghost Towns of Arizona (First ed.). University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 35. ISBN 0806108436. 
2. ^ ^{a b} U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cochran

External links

• Cochran Beehive Ovens description and directions
• Cochran entry at GhostTowns.com
• Coke oven photos, Google Earth map