Liverpool Landing, a

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and former river settlement on the

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, in

Mohave County Mohave County occupies the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona, one of 15 counties in the state. 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 th ...

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, United States, now submerged under

Lake Havasu Lake Havasu () is a large reservoir formed by Parker Dam on the Colorado River, on the border between San Bernardino County, California, and Mohave County, Arizona. Lake Havasu City sits on the Arizonan side of the lake with its Californian coun ...

History

Liverpool Landing was a woodyard landing for fueling the

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s of

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's Colorado Steam Navigation Company of

steamboats of the Colorado River Steamboats on the Colorado River operated from the river mouth at the Colorado River Delta on the Gulf of California in Mexico, up to the Virgin River on the Lower Colorado River Valley in the Southwestern United States from 1852 until 1909, w ...

. It was located 242 miles upriver from Yuma and 22 miles upriver from Aubrey Landing. It was two miles up and across the river from Chimehuevis Landing another woodyard and 58 miles below

Fort Mohave Fort Mohave was originally named Camp Colorado when it was established on April 19, 1859 by Lieutenant Colonel William Hoffman (U.S. Army), William Hoffman during the Mohave War. It was located on the east bank of the Colorado River, at Beale's ...

the next woodyard. Richard E. Lingenfelter, ''Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852–1916'', University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978, pp. 34, 68, 168
The local indigenous

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supplied the wood to the landing.

Present day

The site of Liverpool Landing, located near present-day

Lake Havasu City Lake Havasu City (, ) is a city in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 57,144, up from 52,527 in 2010. It is served by Lake Havasu City Airport. History The community first started dur ...

, was submerged under

in the 1930s. The location of Liverpool Landing can be seen on the March 1911, Parker, Arizona, U. S. Geological Survey Topographic Map. Parker [Arizona, California] 1:125,000 1909
from lib.utexas.edu accessed August 31, 2016

References

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History

Present day

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