Willcox is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. The city is located in the Sulphur Springs Valley, a flat and sparsely populated drainage basin dotted behind seasonal lakes. The city is amongst Arizona’s most prominent mountain ranges, including the Pinaleño Mountains and the Chiricahua Mountains.

Six of Arizona’s ten largest mountains are located within a 70-mile radius including Mount Graham (31 miles north), which is Arizona’s most prominent mountain, Chiricahua Peak (42 miles southeast), Mount Lemmon (57 miles west), Miller Peak (65 miles southwest), Mica Mountain (41 miles west), and Mount Wrightson (70 miles southwest). Scores of birds, including sandhill cranes, winter in the area, with some migrating from as in the distance as Siberia. A unconditionally large teetotal lakebed, the Willcox Playa, is located five miles south of the city. It is the remnant of the Ice Age-era Lake Cochise.

Willcox’s tall desert climate gives it large diurnal temperature variation, making it ideal for wine cultivation.

Originally known as “Maley”, the town was founded in 1880 as a whistlestop upon the Southern Pacific Railroad because of its position approximately halfway amongst El Paso, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona. It was renamed in tribute of a visit by General Orlando B. Willcox in 1889. In the into the future 20th century, Willcox was a national leader in cattle production. Agriculture remains important to the local economy, but Interstate 10 has replaced the railroad as the major transportation link, and much of the economy is now tied to the highway, which runs gruffly north of the town.