Census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
located in
Cochise County
Cochise County ( ) is a county in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. It is named after Cochise, a Chiricahua Apache who was a key war leader during the Apache Wars.
The population was 125,447 at the 2020 census. The county ...
,
Arizona
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, United States.
Mescal was originally a
populated place
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, at a rail station on the
Southern Pacific Railroad
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at an elevation of 4,085 feet. The modern community lies to the south of the railroad near
Interstate 10
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, at 4,170 feet. Mescal had a population of 1,812 in the 2010 Census. Mescal had a post office from 1913 until 1931.
Demographics
Transportation
Benson Area Transit provides transportation to Benson two days a week.
Popular culture
Parts of the movie ''
Tom Horn
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'', starring
Steve McQueen
Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930November 7, 1980) was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of counterculture of the 1960s, 1960s counterculture, made him a top box office draw for his films of the late ...
, were filmed in Mescal. Other productions filmed in Mescal include
Tombstone
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Sharon Stone
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and
Leonardo DiCaprio
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, and Bill O’Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West - Doc Holliday (2015).