The inventory and Plan areas are named for Esmond Station, a former railroad section station located on Rita Road about one-half mile east of Houghton Road.
They also found a reference to it in "Railroads of Arizona: Vol. 1 The Roads of Southern Arizona" (1975),[REF] which referred to a "famous head-on collision took place about three in the morning of January 28, 1903, just west of Esmond, a station about 15 miles east of Tucson.