Changelog

Water in Bisbee comes from the Arizona Water Company, a private utility — not the City — so it isn't always clear how the bill is put together. This tool estimates it from how much water you use in a month, at the company's current published rates: the base charge, the tiered rates, and the two monthly surcharges. Sewer and trash come on a separate City bill, so they aren't included, and the estimate is shown before tax.

Bisbee is a town built on stairs. This new tool maps the nine public staircases of the Bisbee 1000 — the Great Stair Climb held each October — with the step count of each and the total for the whole 4.5-mile loop, about 1,025 steps up the canyon. The staircase locations come from OpenStreetMap. It's there year-round, whether you're training for the climb or just working out which way is up.

You can now check the line at the border before you set off. A new tool shows the wait that U.S. Customs and Border Protection is reporting right now at the Naco crossing (about ten minutes south of town) and the larger Douglas crossing into Agua Prieta — for cars and on foot, with SENTRI and Ready Lane where they run. The figures are CBP's own and refresh about every hour; the official port page is one tap away, and a short line now can still build, so it never pretends to be a promise.

Bisbee's events are scattered across the city, tourism-board, and venue calendars. This pulls the verified fixtures together: the year-round Saturday Community Market in Warren, the second-Saturday gallery art walk, and the festivals that mark the year — Fourth of July, Pirate Weekend, the Bisbee 1000 stair climb, Side Pony, and more. Each entry links to the page it was checked on, and passed events drop off on their own.

Put in your home's value to see a plain estimate of the yearly property-tax bill and where it goes — schools, the county, the city and Cochise College — using Cochise County's published 2025 rates. It also explains, in plain words, the things that can lower the bill for the many Bisbee residents who qualify: the senior valuation freeze, the homeowner rebate, and exemptions for widows, widowers, people with disabilities and disabled veterans, each with the Assessor's links.

Three tools to start: live National Weather Service warnings built for the monsoon flash floods that funnel through the canyon, a who-to-call directory that untangles water, trash, soil and the hospital, and a how-busy parking planner for Old Bisbee.