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Bowie Junction

Ghost town · Cochise County, Arizona

Fisher Hills quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1944, 1:62,500)
Fisher Hills quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1944, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Bowie Junction 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 Bowie Junction as a historical populated place on the Railroad Pass 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 32.3626° N, 109.6256° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleRailroad Pass
Elevation4,042 ft
Nearest living townBowie, AZ
Distance to it8.6 miles
GNIS feature ID25280
Coordinates32.36257, -109.62562

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.

Bowie Junction today, aerial view
Fisher Hills quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1944, 1:62,500)

Left: Fisher Hills quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1944, 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

Bowie Junction is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Bowie, AZ (population 399), about 8.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 4,042 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 Bowie Junction?

Bowie Junction is in Cochise County, Arizona, at 32.3626, -109.6256.

How many ghost towns are in Cochise County?

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

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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.