Park Valley (Arizona) Explained

Park Valley
Map:USA Arizona
Country:United States
State:Arizona
Region:Gila River Valley
((northwest)-Sonoran Desert)
District:Yuma County, Arizona
City:Dateland AZ
City1:Sentinel AZ
City2:Hyder, AZ
Coordinates:32.7964°N -113.5411°W
Length Mi:15
Width Mi:12
Border:Hyder Valley-NE
Palomas Mountains-NW
San Cristobal Valley-SW
Sentinel Plain-SE

The Park Valley of Arizona is a small, northwest by southeast trending valley centered on the Gila River in central-east Yuma County. The southeast border of the valley is the northern Sentinel Plain of Maricopa County which drains northwestwards toward the Gila River Valley.

Interstate 8 is on the south perimeter of the valley, with towns on I-8 of Dateland in the southwest, Aztec on the center-south, and further east, Sentinel on the southeast.

Tenmile Wash, of the Tenmile Wash Watershed[1] has its outfall on the Gila River on the southwest of Park Valley. The coordinates for Dateland, Arizona, on the southwest border of Park Valley are [2]

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Notes and References

  1. Tenmile Wash Watershed Map, cfpub.epa.gov
  2. various web links for Dateland (based on Wikipedia article Dateland) 32, 47,47-N, 113,32,28-W)