When counted with the nearby Sunsites and a couple of other nearby communities, the area overall has a population of 2,100.
These days the town’s population is pretty low but you’ll still find some folks living here.
Once a thriving community, the town slowly began to decline in the 1930s and nearly died when the mine closed for good a decade later. The town was founded shortly after gold was spotted in 1894 and the development of the nearby Commonwealth Mine. Found 16 miles southeast of Cochise is Pearce, another old mining ghost town that has become absorbed by the larger Sunsites.
