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Fort Huachuca is a United States Army installation, established on 3 March 1877 as Camp Huachuca. The garrison is under the command of the United States Army Installation Management Command . It is in Cochise County in southeast Arizona , approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of the border with Mexico and at the northern end of the Huachuca ...
The district, also known as Old Fort Huachuca, is located within Fort Huachuca an active United States Army installation under the command of the United States Army Installation Management Command. The fort sits at the base of the Huachuca Mountains four miles west of the town of Sierra Vista, on AZ 90 in Cochise County, Arizona.
Raven Rock Mountain is adjacent to Jacks Mountain on the north while Miney Branch flows west-to-east between them in the Potomac River Watershed.The 1820 Waynesboro-Emmitsburg Turnpike with toll station for the 1787 crossroad was constructed between the mountains, where the Fight at Monterey Gap was conducted after the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg (Stuart's artillery at Raven Rock Gap shelled ...
The Democracy Index classifies many of the forty-five current non-democratic U.S. base hosts as fully "authoritarian governments". [4] Military bases in non-democratic states were often rationalized during the Cold War by the U.S. as a necessary if undesirable condition in defending against the communist threat posed by the Soviet Union.
The center was relocated from Ft. Holabird, Maryland to Fort Huachuca, Arizona in 1971. The move involved more than 120 moving vans, a unit train and several aircraft. The initial intelligence training facilities were a World War II hospital complex that had not been occupied in several years.
The Huachuca Mountain area is managed principally by the United States Forest Service (Coronado National Forest) (41%) and the U.S. Army (Fort Huachuca) (20%), with much of the rest being private land (32%). Sierra Vista is the main population center (43,888 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census).
Most of this area is currently used by the Electronic Proving Ground, based at Fort Huachuca. [1] [2] It was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1966 for its fossil pollen captured underground, the thousands of sandhill cranes that roost in the area and the largest diversity of tiger beetles in the United States. [3]
It is located south of Sierra Vista, off of AZ 92, on the Fort Huachuca Military Base. [3] Very close by, in a cave, are the Garden Canyon Petroglyphs, a separately listed place on the NHRP. They are carved on the caves ceiling which is located on a bluff several hundred feet above the canyon. [4]