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Benson, Arizona Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Benson, Arizona from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Benson building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Benson, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and FEMA. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Benson artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Benson. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Benson brings back fond memories.
Explore the full map of Benson, Arizona and read about the local places it shows.
Find your street
Names on the Benson map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Places and landmarks3
- Benson City Hall
- Whetstone
- Chamiso
Streets and roads48
- East Fourth Street
- West Fourth Street
- South Ridge Drive
- West Titan Drive
- Frontage Road
- West Post Ranch Road
- Kartchner Trail
- West Via Javelina
- West Aviation Drive
- Post Road
- Whetstone Road
- Scarlett Blossom Trail
- Rickets Road
- Aviation Drive
- Ranch House Road
- North Ocotillo Avenue
- East Pearl Street
- Darby Avenue
- West Union Street
- West Cooperative Way
- South RR
- South Ocotillo Avenue
- North Adams Street
- North Ocotillo Road
- Saguaro Circle
- Casa del Rio Drive
- South Quail Ridge
- East Seventh Street
- Whetstone Ranch Road
- East Cowboy Way
Show all 48 streets
- South Catarina Street
- Desert Senna Trail
- East Mark Street
- La Entrada
- Star View Place
- Skov Road
- Ocotillo Blossom Trail
- South Circle Drive
- East Saguaro Drive
- County Road
- Red Chile Road
- South Perk Road
- Village Loop
- Madison Street
- Honey Locust
- South Cedar Place
- Yucca Lane
- East Post Road
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Benson, Arizona
Benson is a city of 5,355 people in Cochise County. It sits on the San Pedro River, 45 miles east-southeast of Tucson. The Southern Pacific Railroad built east from California in 1880 and picked this spot to bridge the river. The new town took its name from Judge William S. Benson, who was a friend of the railroad's president, Charles Crocker.
Benson soon became the shipping point for the mining camps to the south. Wagons hauled ore and metal in from Tombstone, Fairbank, Contention City and Bisbee, and trains took freight back for them. Tombstone, about 25 miles off, had no closer railhead until 1882, when the New Mexico and Arizona Railroad arrived. In 1894 the Copper Queen company of Bisbee built the Arizona Southeastern to bring its ore here, so Benson became the only town in Arizona with three independent lines. It grew from 300 people in 1880 to 1,200 in 1910, but new lines built in 1901 and 1910 went around it and left Benson with one.
- Ohnesorgen's toll bridgeBefore the railroad came, anyone following the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line or the Southern Emigrant Trail crossed the San Pedro at a ford called the Middle Crossing. The Butterfield Overland Mail had its San Pedro Station there. William Ohnesorgen ran a wagon depot there from 1871, and in 1878 he put up a toll bridge so mining supplies could reach Fairbank and Tombstone. Two years later the Southern Pacific set its own bridge at that spot.
- Hi Wo's store, 1896 to 1989Hi Wo, who had come to Arizona from China, opened his grocery at Gila and East 4th Street in 1896, making it one of Benson's first commercial buildings. His family went on running the store for more than ninety years, until it finally closed in 1989.
- Two barrios on Fifth StreetBetween 1898 and 1901 houses went up along both sides of East Fifth Street. Railroad workers built frame homes west of Gila Street, called Barrio Americano, while ranching and farming families, most of them of Mexican descent, built in adobe to the east, called Barrio Mexicano. Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church had already gone up there in 1895, built by William Ohnesorgen and Don Miguel Jose Castaneda, who owned a hotel.
- Apache Powder's company homesThe Apache Powder Company, now Apache Nitrogen Products, started up just outside Benson in the 1920s and became one of its biggest employers, keeping many barrio families at work through the Great Depression. To house its managers, the company bought land on West 6th Street in 1925 and filled it mostly with Craftsman bungalows. It also built a company hospital and a park that it later handed over to the city.
- Signs by Vern ParkerCharles and Minnie Gardner built the Oasis Court on 4th Street as Benson grew into a crossroads of state and national highways. Lyndon L. Margrave, an archaeologist and ornithologist, bought the block with his wife in the 1940s. They hired the Western artist Vern Parker to paint its signs, and they sold Native American and Mexican crafts in its shop.
Keep exploring Arizona
Benson is one of 519 Arizona towns we've mapped. Every dot on the map is a print of its own.
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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