The Park Valley of

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is a small, northwest by southeast trending valley centered on the

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in central-east Yuma County. The southeast border of the valley is the northern Sentinel Plain of

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which drains northwestwards toward the

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is on the south perimeter of the valley, with towns on I-8 of Dateland in the southwest,

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on the center-south, and further east,

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on the southeast.

Tenmile Wash Tenmile Wash is an ephemeral wash and watercourse about long in the northern Sonoran Desert of south-central Arizona. It forms the eastern drainage of a two drainage system of dry washes into the Gila River Valley; both flow northwesterly, and the ...

, of the ''Tenmile Wash Watershed'' has its outfall on the Gila River on the southwest of Park Valley. The coordinates for

Dateland, Arizona Dateland is both a CDP and a populated place 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. The community is par ...

, on the southwest border of Park Valley are various web links for Dateland (based on Wikipedia article Dateland) 32, 47,47-N, 113,32,28-W)

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Tenmile Wash Watershed Map
Gila River Valleys of Arizona Landforms of Yuma County, Arizona River valleys of the United States

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