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Sotos Crossing

Ghost town · Santa Cruz County, Arizona

Tubac quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500)
Tubac quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Sotos Crossing is a ghost town in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It is one of 11 former communities in Santa Cruz County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 4th among the 15 Arizona counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Sotos Crossing as a historical populated place on the Amado 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 31.6306° N, 111.0362° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleAmado
Elevation3,188 ft
Nearest living townTubac, AZ
Distance to it1.8 miles
GNIS feature ID36850
Coordinates31.63065, -111.03620

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.

Sotos Crossing today, aerial view
Tubac quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500)

Left: Tubac quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 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

Sotos Crossing is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Tubac, AZ (population 1,247), about 1.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 3,188 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 Sotos Crossing?

Sotos Crossing is in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, at 31.6306, -111.0362.

How many ghost towns are in Santa Cruz County?

Santa Cruz County, Arizona has 11 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.