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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.
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.
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.
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 camel silhouette on the apex is made of steel, 2 feet (0.61 m) tall, and faces west. It is located in the older "pioneer section" of the cemetery, marking the first of 124 graves in the section. The cemetery is in a natural desert setting with hard packed dirt, one block off the main street (U.S. Route 95) in Quartzsite. [15]
The unit is a thick sequence of massive quartzite beds, white to reddish or tan in color, 2 to 7 feet (0.6 to 2 m) thick. There are also scattered beds of sericite schist that become more numerous in the uppermost part of the formation, where the quartzite beds thin to 1 to 2 feet (0.3 to 0.6 m) in thickness and the beds are reddened by hematite.