The White Hills are a range of hills in northern

Mohave County, Arizona Mohave County is in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, its population was 213,267. The county seat is Kingman, and the largest city is Lake Havasu City. It is the fifth largest county in the United St ...

. These hills lie north of the Cerbat Mountains and extend south from the Colorado River at Lake Mead between the

Detrital Valley The Detrital Valley is a 51-mi (82 km) long valley in northwest Mohave County, Arizona that drains into Lake Mead. It is parallel to the valley just east, Hualapai Valley with the White Hills (Arizona) being the divider between. Detrital V ...

to the west and the

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and the upper Hualapai Valley to the east. The ''north region'' of the White Hills is located in Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The White Hills occur in a north, central, and south region. The approximate mountain range center is slightly northeast of

White Hills, Arizona White Hills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. It is northwest of Dolan Springs. As of the 2020 census, White Hills had a population of 345. History In 1892, Henry Shaffe ...

, the

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, .Senator Mountain, topozone.com
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History

The west side of the White Hills were the site of a silver rush in 1892. It resulted in the establishment of the boomtown of White Hills, in

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, twenty miles east of the

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landing at Eldorado Canyon.Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852–1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978
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References

External links

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Approx. mountain range center, Senator Mountain, northeast of White Hills, AZ, at topozone.com
{{Authority control Lake Mead National Recreation Area Mountain ranges of Arizona Hills of Arizona Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert Mountain ranges of Mohave County, Arizona