Palm Canyon Wash is an

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and tributary

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of the Whitewater River, in

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. Palm Canyon Wash runs southward from Bull Canyon then north down Palm Canyon then east to its confluence with the Whitewater River at an elevation of . Its source is at , at an elevation of 6,165 feet, at the head of Bull Canyon on the southern western slope of a ridge in the

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. The waters of Palm Canyon Wash are augmented by Bull Canyon Spring at , at an elevation of . There the mouth of an unnamed creek flows north down from Vandeventer Flat into the head of Palm Canyon at its confluence with the creek of Palm Canyon Wash where it is flowing out of Bull Canyon at at an elevation of 4,460 feet. The creek or arroyo then runs northward in Palm Canyon to where the wash begins.

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