| Texas Hill Station | |
| Settlement Type: | Locale |
| Pushpin Map: | Arizona#USA |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Name1: | Arizona |
| Subdivision Name2: | Yuma |
| Elevation Ft: | 337 |
| Timezone: | MST (no DST) |
| Utc Offset: | -7 |
| Coordinates: | 32.8306°N -113.6592°W |
Texas Hill Station is a site of a later Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach station. It was one of several built in 1859 to increase the number of water stops and team changes along the drier and hotter sections of the route and was located about 2 miles east of Texas Hill.[1]
Texas Hill Station replaced Griswell's Station and when the Union Army measured the distances between stations in 1862, it was located 10.98 miles east of Mohawk Station, and 16.13 miles from Flap-Jack Ranch, later known as Grinnel’s Ranch, and Stanwix Station.Their report also noted the station was a half a mile back from the river and that there was a little grass on the hill.[2]
From 1861 the station was abandoned by the Overland Mail Company, but Texas Hill Station remained in use as a water stop and camp for soldiers, freighters and travelers, and from 1866 until 1880 a stage station once again.[3]
Today no trace of the station remains in the river valley, no doubt swept away by the changing course of the river or by flood events since 1880.
In T. 7 S., R. 14 W. Familiar stage station before railroad days; on Gila river near present railroad station of Stoval, or Crystoval, q.v. Of this place Poston writes: "Next Texas Hill looms on the plain." The writer ate dinner at this station in February, 1880. Shows as a mountain on north side of river on some early maps. But was always called Texas Hill."