Kinjockity Ranch

Kinjockity Ranch occupies a stretch of grassland along the upper San Pedro River drainage near Hereford, in Cochise County, southeastern Arizona, in the long valley between the Huachuca and Mule Mountains. The ranch was developed in the early twentieth century, during the period in which the San Pedro Valley supported a mixed economy of cattle, small-scale irrigated farming, and seasonal occupation by Anglo settlers who had displaced the older Mexican land-grant ranching of the previous century. Its built fabric is representative of the southeastern Arizona ranching landscape that survives, in fragments, between Tombstone and the international border.

The principal ranch house is executed in a Pueblo Revival idiom: low single-story massing organized around a central courtyard or covered porch, stuccoed exterior walls over earthen or masonry cores, projecting wooden roof beams, simple punched windows in deep reveals, and a flat parapeted roof in the regional manner. Outbuildings — bunkhouse, tack room, sheds, corrals — are arranged in the loose working order typical of cattle ranches, rather than the formal compound plan of a designed estate. Surface finishes were renewed periodically, and the property retains the worked, lived-in character of a continuously operating ranch.

Kinjockity is associated in regional documentation with the cattle-and-conservation culture that emerged along the San Pedro in the early twentieth century, and the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 under reference number 96000759 in recognition of its architectural and historical significance to that landscape.

The ranch remains in private ownership as a working residence and is not open to the public. Within Arizona's adobe tradition Kinjockity Ranch stands for the southeastern Arizona ranching version of Pueblo Revival — a regional adaptation of the older Hispanic ranch house to the Anglo-American working cattle landscape of the San Pedro and Sulphur Springs valleys.