Willcox
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city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Total
- 6.28 sq mi (16.27 km )
- Land
- 6.15 sq mi (15.92 km )
- Water
- 0.14 sq mi (0.35 km )
- Elevation
- 4,170 ft (1,270 m)
- Density
- 522.6/sq mi (201.76/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( MST (no DST ))
- Zip codes
- 85643-85644
- Fips code
- 04-83090
- Website
- willcox .az .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Willcox is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2020 census, Willcox had a population of 3,213. The city is located in the Sulphur Springs Valley, a flat and sparsely populated drainage basin dotted with seasonal lakes. The city is surrounded by Arizona's most prominent mountain ranges, including the Pinaleño Mountains and the Chiricahua Mountains.
Six of Arizona's ten largest mountains are located within a 70-mile radius including Mount Graham (31 miles north), which is Arizona's most prominent mountain, Chiricahua Peak (42 miles southeast), Mount Lemmon (57 miles west), Miller Peak (65 miles southwest), Mica Mountain (41 miles west), and Mount Wrightson (70 miles southwest). Scores of birds, including sandhill cranes, winter in the area, with some migrating from as far away as Siberia. A very large dry lakebed, the Willcox Playa, is located five miles south of the city. It is the remnant of the Ice Age-era Lake Cochise.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Willcox” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.