The Needles are a distinctive group of rock pinnacles, mountain peaks adjacent to the Topock Gorge, and the Colorado River on the northwestern extreme of the Mohave Mountains within the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. [1] They range from 1207 to over 1600 feet in altitude.
Mohave or Mojave are a Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert. The Fort Mojave Indian Reservation includes territory within the borders of California, Arizona, and Nevada. The Colorado River Indian Reservation includes parts of California and Arizona and is shared by members of the Chemehuevi, Hopi, and Navajo peoples.
Arizona Village is a census-designated place (CDP) on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,057 at the 2020 census, up from 946 in 2010 and 351 in 2000.
Bullhead City is a city located on the Colorado River in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, 97 miles (156 km) south of Las Vegas, Nevada, and directly across the Colorado River from Laughlin, Nevada, whose casinos and ancillary services supply much of the employment for Bullhead City. Bullhead City is located at the southern end of Lake Mohave.
Mesquite Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The population was 403 at the 2020 census.
Mohave Valley is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The population was 2,693 at the 2020 census. It is geographically connected to Needles, California, Fort Mohave and Bullhead City.
Mojave Ranch Estates is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The population was 53 as of the 2020 census.
Willow Valley is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,059 as of the 2020 census.
The Fort Mohave Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation along the Colorado River, currently encompassing 23,669 acres (95.79 km2) in Arizona, 12,633 acres (51.12 km2) in California, and 5,582 acres (22.59 km2) in Nevada. The reservation is home to approximately 1,100 members of the federally recognized Fort Mojave Indian Tribe of Arizona, California, and Nevada, a federally recognized tribe of Mohave people.
The Mohave Valley is a valley located mostly on the east shore of the south-flowing Colorado River in northwest Arizona. The valley extends into California's San Bernardino County; the northern side of the valley extends into extreme southeast Clark County, Nevada. The main part of the valley lies in southwest Mohave County, Arizona and is at the intersection of the southeast Mojave and northwest Sonoran deserts.
The Mojave Road, also known as Old Government Road, is a historic route and present day dirt road across what is now the Mojave National Preserve in the Mojave Desert in the United States. This rough road stretched 147 miles (237 km) from Beale's Crossing, to Fork of the Road location along the north bank of the Mojave River where the old Mojave Road split off from the route of the Old Spanish Trail/Mormon Road.
The Sacramento Valley of northwestern Arizona is a north–south trending valley west and southwest of Kingman in Mohave County. The valley lies just east of the southern section of the Black Mountains. Interstate 40 in Arizona traverses the valley north–south.
The Black Mesa of northwestern Arizona is the extreme southern section of the Black Mountains.
The Black Mountains of northwest Arizona are an extensive, mostly linear, north-south trending 75 miles (121 km) long mountain range. It forms the north-south border of southwest Mohave County as it borders the eastern shore of the south-flowing Colorado River from Hoover Dam.
The Desert Training Center (DTC), also known as California–Arizona Maneuver Area (CAMA), was a World War II training facility established in the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert, largely in Southern California and Western Arizona in 1942.
Dutch Flat of Arizona is a valley south of the Sacramento Valley and Interstate 40 in southern Mohave County.
Liverpool Landing, a ghost town and former river settlement on the Colorado River, in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, now submerged under Lake Havasu.
Hualapai Valley is a valley in Mohave County, Arizona.
Iretaba City was a short lived steamboat landing and mining town in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.
Powell was a railroad station and settlement in Mohave County, Arizona, United States from 1883 to 1890.
McConnico is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The population was 63 at the 2020 census.
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