Dome, Arizona Explained

Dome, Arizona
Settlement Type:Ghost town
Pushpin Map:Arizona#USA
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Name1:Arizona
Subdivision Name2:Yuma
Established Title:Founded
Established Date:1858
Extinct Title:Abandoned
Extinct Date:1940
Elevation Ft:194
Elevation M:59
Population As Of:2011
Population Total:0
Timezone:MST (no DST)
Utc Offset:-7
Coordinates:32.7553°N -114.3622°W
Blank Name:Post Office opened
Blank Info:December 24, 1858
Blank1 Name:Post Office closed
Blank1 Info:July 14, 1863

Dome ('''Hi:lo''') is a ghost town located in Yuma County, in southwestern Arizona, United States. It is located in the Dome Valley south of the Gila River. Originally Swiveler's Station, east of Fort Yuma on the Butterfield Overland Mail route, a post office was established here in 1858. It was first under the name of Gila City, the nearby boomtown NaNmiles west of Swiveler's, but the post office closed July 14, 1863, after most of the town was swept away in the Great Flood of 1862, and then abandoned for the La Paz gold rush along the Colorado River. After the railroad passed by the site and an attempt at large scale mining of the placers began, a new post office was established as Dome in 1892 but soon closed when the attempt failed. Subsequently it opened and closed several times before finally closing in 1940.[1] [2]

Today the site lies along the Union Pacific's Sunset Route and a road that follows the old Overland stage route, south of the Wellton-Mohawk canal and Gila River. All that remains on the site is a large adobe building, one small adobe remnant and foundations.[3] There is a cemetery nearby to the west.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Eldred D. Wilson, "Gold Placers and Placering in Arizona", Bulletin 168, State of Arizona, Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch, A Division of the University of Arizona, Reprinted 1981, p.18 . July 9, 2011 . July 21, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110721032946/http://www.azgs.az.gov/Mineral%20Scans/gold_bull168_ocr.pdf . dead .
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=Hf97Akn8l9kC&pg=PA60 James E. Sherman, Barbara H. Sherman, Ghost Towns of Arizona, University of Oklahoma Press, 1969, p.60
  3. http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/az/dome.html Dome from ghosttowns.com