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Wickenburg is located in northwestern Maricopa County. The town limits extend north into the southwestern part of Yavapai County. Via U.S. Route 60, Phoenix is 53 miles (85 km) to the southeast, and Blythe, California, on the Colorado River, is 114 miles (183 km) to the west-southwest.
Vulture City's post office was established on October 4, 1880, and Henry Wickenburg was the town's first Post Master. The town had more than five boarding houses and several buildings. The huge Vulture Mine-Assay Office building, built in 1884, still stands today. The town also had cookhouse and mess hall plus stores, saloons and even a school. [3]
The Vulture mine began when a prospector from California's gold rush, Henry Wickenburg, discovered a quartz deposit containing gold and began mining the outcrop himself. In 1863, after Henry Wickenburg discovered the Vulture mine, Vulture City, a small mining town, was established in the area. The town once had a population of 5,000 citizens.
Wickenburg Municipal Airport (FAA LID: E25) is a public use airport located 3.5 miles (3.0 nmi; 5.6 km) west of the central business district of Wickenburg, in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is owned by the Town of Wickenburg. [1]
Henry Wickenburg (November 21, 1819 – May 14, 1905) was a Prussian prospector who discovered the Vulture Mine and founded the town of Wickenburg in the U.S. state of Arizona. Wickenburg never married.
Map of the United States with Arizona highlighted. Arizona is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, Arizona is the 14th most populous state with 7,151,502 inhabitants (as of the 2020 census) [1] and the 6th largest by land area spanning 113,623.1 square miles (294,282 km 2). [2]
La Paz–Wikenburg Road was a 131-mile-long (211 km) wagon road from 1863 and from 1866 a stagecoach route between the Colorado River landings at La Paz, Olive City and Mineral City to the mining town of Wickenburg, Arizona. From Wickenburg roads led to other new mining camps and districts in the interior of Arizona Territory. From 1862, when ...
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