The Black Hills of Greenlee County are a 20 mi (32 km) long
mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...
of the extreme northeast
Sonoran Desert
The Sonoran Desert ( es, Desierto de Sonora) is a desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Ariz ...
bordering the south of the
White Mountains of eastern Arizona's
transition zone.
The mountain range is bordered by the
Gila River, and the range is a
large block that forces the Gila to flow northwest, west, southwest; at the west, the Gila River begins an excursion northwest at the start of the
Gila Valley, where
Safford and
Thatcher lie in the valley.
The southwest quarter of the mountain range lies in the southeast of
Graham County.
Description
The Black Hills are on the southern border of the
Arizona transition zone, with the complete excursion of the Gila River and mountain range in the zone, and valleys to the south, in the
Sonoran Desert
The Sonoran Desert ( es, Desierto de Sonora) is a desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Ariz ...
.
The center south of the range starts the northern drainage into the small
Whitlock Valley. The southeast of the Black Hills start the small hills at the north of a north–south stretch of the
Peloncillo Mountains. The southwest of the range start the small hills associated with the northeast of the north–south small range of the
Whitlock Mountains Whitlock may refer to:
__NOTOC__ Places
* Whitlock, Tennessee, United States, an unincorporated community
* Whitlock Valley, Arizona, United States
* Whitlock Island, Western Australia
* Whitlock, original name of Bay Terrace station, a railway s ...
.
Peaks, and landforms
The highest elevation in the mountains is Guthrie Peak at , located at
Guthrie Peak Summit, mountainzone.com
/ref> in the range's center-east, along with Guthrie Mountain, further northeast, bordering the Gila River.
See also
* Arizona transition zone
References
* Lucchitta, 2001. ''Hiking Arizona's Geology,'' Ivo Lucchitta, c 2001, Mountaineers's Books. (softcover, )
External links
Guthrie Peak Summit, mountainzone.com (coordinates); list of trails)
{{Mountains of Arizona
White Mountains (Arizona)
Mountain ranges of Graham County, Arizona
Arizona transition zone mountain ranges
Mountain ranges of the Sonoran Desert
Mountain ranges of Arizona