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Bernardino

Ghost town · Cochise County, Arizona

Pedregosa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1926, 1:62,500)
Pedregosa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1926, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Bernardino is a ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona. It is one of 15 former communities in Cochise County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 2nd among the 15 Arizona counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Bernardino as a historical populated place on the Pedregosa Mountains East topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 31.5107° N, 109.3128° W.

Key facts

USGS quadranglePedregosa Mountains East
Elevation4,502 ft
Nearest living townDouglas, AZ
Distance to it15.5 miles
GNIS feature ID24318
Coordinates31.51065, -109.31284

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Bernardino today, aerial view
Pedregosa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1926, 1:62,500)

Left: Pedregosa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1926, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Bernardino is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Douglas, AZ (population 16,118), about 15.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 4,502 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Bernardino?

Bernardino is in Cochise County, Arizona, at 31.5107, -109.3128.

How many ghost towns are in Cochise County?

Cochise County, Arizona has 15 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.