-Created on February 1, 1881 from the eastern part of Pima County
-The county seat is Bisbee, and the most populated city is Sierra Vista ... other unique communities include Benson, Willcox, Tombstone, and Douglas
-Cochise County is named after Cochise, a Chiricahua Apache war chief who was a key figure in the Apache Wars
-Archaeological finds suggest that civilizations lived along the San Pedro River as far back as 13,000 years ago ... the river runs north-south through the middle of Cochise County