Sierra Vista, Arizona

Cochise County

04-66820

Sierra Vista is a city in Cochise County in the U.S. state of Arizona, USA, with 43,320 inhabitants ( 2008). The metropolitan area has a size of 397.5 km ². Sierra Vista is located about 100 kilometers southeast of the metropolitan Tucson and 20 miles north of the Mexican border. In the city there is a branch of US-based Tucson University of Arizona, called UA South. Northwest of the city is Fort Huachuca, a large base of the United States Army.

Sierra Vista has been twinned with

Germany Radebeul, Germany, since 1998.

Population Development

¹ 1980-2000: census results; 2005, 2008: Updating the U.S. Census Bureau; Source 2000-2008:

Traffic

Sierra Vista is located at the junction between the Arizona State Route 90 and Arizona State Route 92 and also has the Sierra Vista Municipal Airport an airport.