![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mohave County, Arizona</span> County in Arizona, United States](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Kingman_courthouse.jpg/320px-Kingman_courthouse.jpg)
Mohave County is in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, its population was 213,267. The county seat is Kingman, and the largest city is Lake Havasu City. It is the fifth largest county in the United States.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kingman, Arizona</span> City in Arizona, United States](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Kingman_courthouse.jpg/320px-Kingman_courthouse.jpg)
Kingman is a city in, and the county seat of, Mohave County, Arizona, United States. It is named after Lewis Kingman, an engineer for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. It is located 105 miles (169 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, and 180 miles (290 km) northwest of Arizona's state capital, Phoenix. The population was 32,689 at the 2020 census.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arizona State Route 66</span> State highway in Arizona, United States](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Arizona_66.svg/320px-Arizona_66.svg.png)
State Route 66 is a surface road in the U.S. state of Arizona in Mohave and Coconino Counties. In 1914, the road was designated "National Old Trails Highway" but in 1926 was re-designated as U.S. Route 66. In 1985, U.S. Route 66 was dropped from the highway system. Parts of the highway were either absorbed into I-40, turned over to the state, or turned over to Yavapai County.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Olive Oatman</span> American woman once enslaved (1837–1903)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Olive_Oatman1_%28cropped%29.jpg/320px-Olive_Oatman1_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Olive Ann Oatman was a white American woman celebrated in her time for her captivity and later release by Native Americans in the Mojave Desert region when she was a teenager. She later lectured about her experiences.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oatman, Arizona</span> Census-designated place in Mohave County, Arizona, United States](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Oatman_highway.jpg/320px-Oatman_highway.jpg)
Oatman is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Black Mountains of Mohave County, Arizona, United States, at an elevation of 2,710 feet (830 m). In 1915, it began as a small mining camp when two prospectors struck US$10 million in gold, though the vicinity had already been settled for several years. Oatman's population grew to more than 3,500 in one year. As of the 2020 United States census, its population was 102.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Big Sandy River (Arizona)</span> River in Arizona](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Big_Sandy_River_at_Arrastra_Mountain_Wilderness.jpg/320px-Big_Sandy_River_at_Arrastra_Mountain_Wilderness.jpg)
The Big Sandy River is both an intermittent and perennial stream in Mohave and La Paz counties in northwestern Arizona in the United States. It begins where Cottonwood Wash and Trout Creek converge in the Hualapai Indian Reservation east of U.S. Route 93 then flows past Wikieup south of Kingman. The Big Sandy River then passes the Signal Ghost Town Site, meanders through the Arrastra Mountain Wilderness, and joins the Santa Maria River in Southern Mohave County to form the Bill Williams River. The Bill Williams River then empties into Alamo Lake State Park. The Big Sandy River is 55.7 miles (89.6 km) long.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hualapai</span> Native American tribe](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Tathamiche.jpg/320px-Tathamiche.jpg)
The Hualapai is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Arizona with about 2300 enrolled members. Approximately 1353 enrolled members reside on the Hualapai Reservation, which spans over three counties in Northern Arizona.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hualapai Mountains</span> Landform in Arizona, US](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Hualapai_Mountain_range.jpg/320px-Hualapai_Mountain_range.jpg)
The Hualapai Mountains are a mountain range located in Mohave County, east of Kingman, Arizona. Rising up to 8,417 feet at its highest peak, the higher elevations of the Hualapai Mountains support Madrean Sky Island habitats, and are host to a plethora of unique flora and fauna in a wide range of microclimates, high above the surrounding Mojave Desert.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chloride, Arizona</span> Census-designated place in Mohave County](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Chloride_TownCenter.JPG/320px-Chloride_TownCenter.JPG)
Chloride is a onetime silver mining camp in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, and is considered the oldest continuously inhabited mining town in the state. The town is a census-designated place (CDP), with a population at the 2020 census of 229. Chloride has a ZIP Code of 86431.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hualapai War</span> 1865–1870, United States v. Natives](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Camp_Date_Creek_1869.jpg/320px-Camp_Date_Creek_1869.jpg)
The Hualapai War, or Walapai War, was an armed conflict fought from 1865 to 1870 between the Hualapai native Americans and the United States in Arizona Territory. The Yavapai also participated on the side of the Hualapai and Mohave scouts were employed by the United States Army. Following the death of the prominent Yavapai leader Anasa in April 1865, the natives began raiding American settlements which provoked a response by the United States Army forces stationed in the area. By the spring of 1869 disease forced the majority of the Hualapais to surrender though some skirmishing continued for almost two more years.
The Durlin Hotel, which was renamed the Oatman Hotel, is located on Main St. in Oatman, Arizona, United States. It was built in 1924 by John Durlin and includes Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Irataba</span> Leader of the Mohave Nation (c. 1814 – 1874)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Irataba.jpg/320px-Irataba.jpg)
Irataba was a leader of the Mohave Nation, known as a mediator between the Mohave and the United States. He was born near the Colorado River in present-day Arizona. Irataba was a renowned orator and one of the first Mohave to speak English, a skill he used to develop relations with the United States.
Olive City, or Olivia, was a short-lived town, steamboat landing, and ferry crossing on the Colorado River in what was then Yuma County, Arizona Territory, from 1863 to 1866. It was located on the Arizona bank of the Colorado River, 1 mile above its rival Mineral City and 1/2 mile above the original site of Ehrenberg, Arizona, 3 miles southwest of the location of La Paz. The GNIS location of Olive City (historical) is indicated as being in La Paz County, Arizona, but its coordinates in the present-day now put it across the river just within Riverside County, California. Olive City was named after Olive Oatman who had been, with her sister, survivors of the massacre of her family and a captive of the Yavapai until purchased from them by the Mohave who they lived with for several years.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Antares, Arizona</span> Census-designated place in Arizona, United States](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Giganticus_%286740010623%29.jpg/320px-Giganticus_%286740010623%29.jpg)
Antares is an unincorporated community and census designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 132. It exists along part of historic U.S. Route 66.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fort Tyson</span> Historic site in La Paz County, Arizona](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Quartzsite-Tyson%27s_Well_Stage_Station-1866-1.jpg/320px-Quartzsite-Tyson%27s_Well_Stage_Station-1866-1.jpg)
Fort Tyson was a privately owned fort built in 1856 by Charles Tyson in the area which is now called Quartzsite, Arizona. He built the fort to protect the local miners and water supply from the raids of the Yavapai (Mohave-Apache), a Native-American tribe. The area in which Fort Tyson was located has been known as Fort Tyson, Tyson’s Well and is now called the town of Quartzsite because of the large amount of quartz found in its surrounding areas.
![<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shaffer Springs</span> Water source in Arizona](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Cool_Springs_Station_%2815592676437%29.jpg/320px-Cool_Springs_Station_%2815592676437%29.jpg)
Shaffer Springs, sometimes called Shaffer's Fish Bowl, is a natural seep and minor roadside attraction in the Black Mountains of Arizona, United States. Located in Mohave County, alongside the old alignment of Route 66 that runs between Kingman, Arizona and Oatman, the water from the seep flows into a manmade basin stocked with domestic goldfish. Shaffer Springs serves a vital water source for wild burros.