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Hereford was a common stop for travelers heading from Tombstone, 15 miles northwest, down the San Pedro River en route to Naco, Arizona and thence Mexico, approximately 14 miles away. The original townsite was populated until the 1950s, and the last structures disappeared in the early 1960s.
The Hereford Bridge spans the San Pedro River near Hereford, Arizona, and was built in three stages. The first one was built in 1912–1913, consisting of a single span truss , with steel cylinder piers as supports.
The other two runways were not depicted at all. However, this rejuvenation of the field was evidently short-lived, as Hereford was not listed in the 1987 Flight Guide. It appears that one of the runways at Hereford was used by small private aircraft until about 1990. However, as of the late 1990s, the entire Hereford site was privately owned.
The Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site is in southern Arizona (Cochise County) on the west bank of the San Pedro River 1.5 miles southwest of the town of Hereford. It is significant for its association with evidence that mammoths were killed here by Paleo-Indians 11,000 to 12,000 years before present.
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Arizona for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers.. Most of these airfields were under the command of Fourth Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (A predecessor of the current-day United States Air Force Air Education and Training Command).
Sierra Vista Southeast, often referred to as Hereford or Nicksville, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. The population was 14,797 at the 2010 census . It includes the neighborhoods Ramsey Canyon, [ 3 ] and Sierra Vista Estates [ 4 ] within its boundaries.
Hereford Arizona Observatory (HAO), IAU-code G95, is an astronomical observatory, [1] [2] owned and operated by amateur astronomer Bruce L. Gary. [3] Observational studies of unusual starlight fluctuations in Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852) [ 4 ] and WD 1145+017 [ 5 ] are recent interests.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Arizona on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]