page_title: Bisbee, Arizona
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bisbee, Arizona / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Postcard: Aerial view of Bisbee, looking east, circa 1909 (and someone wrote "1909" on the picture)
context_page_description: Bisbee is a city and the county seat of Cochise County in southeastern Arizona, United States. It is 92 miles southeast of Tucson and 11 miles north of the Mexican border. According to the 2010 census, the population of the town was 5,575.
context_section_description: Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of the financial backers of the adjacent Copper Queen Mine.
  In 1929, the county seat was moved from Tombstone to Bisbee, where it remains.
caption: Bisbee, looking east, 1909
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