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Dateland is a CDP, populated place, and colonia [3] in Yuma County, Arizona, United States. It is in an area well known for date palm dates . Dateland has the ZIP Code of 85333; in 2000, the population of the 85333 ZCTA was 852.
Medjool Date Palms in Dateland. Dateland, named after the Medjool Date Palms, was a road stop in the 1920s that served the travelers who were headed to and from California. During World War II, Dateland became the home to two of General George Patton's desert training camps, Camp Horn and Camp Hyder
Designated Dateland Air Force Auxiliary Field in 1948, in the early 1950s Dateland AFAS was used by various special forces squadrons of the MATS Air Resupply And Communications Service for training. In 1957 the hangar and the other flight line buildings mysteriously burned down, and the Air Force sent in an investigation team to do an inventory ...
To the SouthWest of Camp Hyder was the Dateland Air Force Auxiliary Field, named after the Dateland, Arizona road stop. The air landing strip was used to support the camp's training activities. The runway was from use for small planes, like the L-4 Piper Aircraft so the vast training grounds could be watched from the air. The runway was long ...
The Yuma County Library District (YCLD) serves the population of Yuma County, Arizona.Today, the library district consists of a Main Library located in Yuma as well as 7 branch libraries, which are located in downtown Yuma, the Foothills, Somerton, San Luis, Wellton, Dateland, and Roll.
Yuma County was one of four original Arizona counties created by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature. [4] The county territory was defined as being west of longitude 113° 20' and south of the Bill Williams River. [5] Its original boundaries remained the same until 1982, when La Paz County was created from its northern half.
Near Camp Horn also was the Dateland Air Force Auxiliary Field, named after the Dateland, Arizona road stop. It was also used to support Camp Horn. The runway was long enough for large planes to use in training exercises also. The United States Army Air Forces opened on 1 January 1943. It was also used for Air Forces training by the 3037th Army ...
As of the 2010 census, there were 504 people living in the CDP: 245 male and 259 female. 192 were 19 years old or younger, 73 were ages 20–34, 126 were between the ages of 35 and 49, 72 were between 50 and 64, and the remaining 41 were aged 65 and above.