Cochran, Arizona

{{Short description|Ghost town in Pinal County}} {{Use American English|date=June 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Cochran, Arizona |settlement_type = Ghost town |official_name = |image_skyline = |imagesize = |image_caption = |image_map = |mapsize = |pushpin_map = Arizona#USA |pushpin_label = Cochran |pushpin_label_position = bottom |pushpin_mapsize = 250 |map_caption = Location in the state of Arizona |image_map1 = |mapsize1 = |map_caption1 = |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name = United States |subdivision_name1 = Arizona |subdivision_name2 = Pinal |established_title = Founded |established_date = 1905 |extinct_title = Abandoned |extinct_date = 1915 |founder = |named_for = John S. Cochran, first postmaster<ref name="ghosttowns-arizona">{{cite book |last=Sherman |first=James E. |author2=Barbara H. Sherman |title=Ghost Towns of Arizona |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |date=1969 |edition=First |pages=35 |chapter=Cochran |isbn=0-8061-0843-6 }}</ref> |government_type = |leader_title = |leader_name = |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = |area_total_sq_mi = |area_land_km2 = |area_land_sq_mi = |area_water_km2 = |area_water_sq_mi = |elevation_footnotes = <ref name="usgs">{{gnis|24373|Cochran}}</ref> |elevation_ft = 1640 |elevation_m = 500 |population_as_of = 2009 |population_footnotes = |population_total = 0 |population_metro = |population_density_km2 = |population_density_sq_mi = |timezone = MST (no DST) |utc_offset = -7 |coordinates = {{coord|33|06|34|N|111|08|59|W|region:US-AZ|display=inline,title}} |website = |timezone_DST = |utc_offset_DST = |postal_code_type = |postal_code = |area_code = |GNIS_id = |blank_name = Post Office opened |blank_info = January 3, 1905 |blank1_name = Post Office closed |blank1_info = January 15, 1915 |footnotes = }} '''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 (now the Copper Basin Railway). The post office was established on January 3, 1905, and was discontinued on January 15, 1915. At its peak, the population was approximately 100, and housed a general store and a boardinghouse, among other establishments.<ref name="ghosttowns-arizona"/>

Apart from a few building foundations in the town center, and the railroad tracks at the edge of the now-abandoned town site, Cochran's last (and most notable) remains are five largely intact beehive coke ovens across the Gila River at Butte, Arizona. (These coke ovens are actually from an earlier town that existed before Cochrane came into existence.) thumb|left|Coke Ovens near Butte, Arizona The Coke Ovens are on a 189-acre section of private property; visitation is not allowed.

==Geography== Cochran is located about {{convert|15|mi|km}} east of Florence, Arizona at {{coord|33|06|34|N|111|08|59|W|type:city}}.<ref name="ghosttowns-arizona"/><ref name="usgs"/>

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==External links== * [http://abell.as.arizona.edu/~hill/4x4/cochr01.html Cochran Beehive Ovens description and directions] * [http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/az/cochran.html Cochran entry at GhostTowns.com] * [http://www.azghosttowns.com/towns/cochran.html Cochran] – Ghost Town of the Month at azghosttowns.com * [https://web.archive.org/web/20161010165429/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7509576 Coke oven photos, Google Earth map]

Category:Ghost towns in Arizona Category:Former populated places in Pinal County, Arizona Category:Mining communities in Arizona