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Quartzsite is highlighted in red. Incorporated cities are shown in gray and unincorporated communities or CDPs are shown in white. Data for the borders and locations are based on maps from the La Paz County Public Works - Comprehensive Plan 2005 , US Census Bureau TIGER Map Server , and ITCA Map of Tribal Homelands in Arizona .
"Gold Atlas of Quartzsite, Arizona Volume 2 Southern Dome Rock Mountains"; by: Dr. Erik Melchiorre; ISBN 978-0981763149. "Arizona – Quartzsite Area: Things you may NOT have seen in and around Quartzsite, AZ."; by Joe Lange (Author, Photographer) and Dorothy "Tootie" Jacobs (Contributor); Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN 978-1450541312.
According to the United States Census Bureau Quartzsite is all land and has a total area of 36.3 sq mi (94.0 km 2). Quartzsite lies on the western portion of the La Posa Plain along Tyson Wash . The Dome Rock Mountains overlook the town on the west with Granite Mountain on the southwest edge of the town and Oldman Mountain on the northwest.
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.
On June 20, 1938, SR 95 was extended north through Quartzsite to SR 72 in Bouse. [2] The road south of Quartzsite to San Luis was renumbered as part of U.S. Route 95 on June 27, 1960. [3] The road to Bouse was turned over to Yuma County to maintain in 1953–1955. Parts of SR 95 around the town of Parker were part of SR 72 until 1962.
Chile Bar Slate company quarry, off of highway CA193 next to the American River near Placerville, California; Limestone quarry near Auburn, California of the Mountain Quarries Company of San Francisco, a subsidiary of Pacific Portland Cement Company, near confluence of the North Fork and the Middle Fork of the American River.
U.S. Route 95 was a late addition to Arizona's U.S. Highway system, having been extended into the state around 1960 during the dawn of the Interstate Highway System. [6] [7] Though it is a short section of highway, only traveling between Ehrenberg and San Luis at the Mexico–United States border, it also serves as the main north–south highway to the cities of Yuma, San Luis, and Quartzsite. [2]
The Mesoproterozoic Dripping Spring Quartzite is a resistant, purple quartzite formation found in central and southeast Arizona, USA. It is a cliff-forming purplish unit found in the lower sections of the Apache Group , units of originally sedimentary layers, but later metamorphosed.