Iretaba City, Arizona

Iretaba City a short lived steamboat landing and mining town, in Mohave County, Arizona.

History

Soldiers from Fort Mohave established the Iretaba Mining District in early 1863 when they found copper five miles west of the river in the Dead Mountains of California. First the landing at Mohave City was founded near Fort Mohave. Then Iretaba City soon followed, built 2 miles down river from Mohave City in January 1864 but it was supplanted when the ferry and landing of Hardyville was established in March 1864, to serve the nearby mines of the newly discovered San Francisco Mining District, supported by George A. Johnson and Company, the steamboat company.^[1]^:39

Site today

Nothing remains at the site.

References

↑ Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978

Coordinates: 35°00′53″N 114°38′03″W / 35.01472°N 114.63417°W / 35.01472; -114.63417

Municipalities and communities of Mohave County, Arizona, United States

County seat: Kingman

Cities	Bullhead City Kingman Lake Havasu City

Town	Colorado City

CDPs	Antares Arizona Village Beaver Dam Cane Beds Centennial Park Chloride Clacks Canyon Crozier Crystal Beach Desert Hills Dolan Springs Fort Mohave Golden Shores Golden Valley Grand Canyon West Hackberry Littlefield Kaibab‡ Katherine Lazy Y U McConnico Meadview Mesquite Creek Moccasin Mohave Valley Mojave Ranch Estates New Kingman-Butler Oatman Peach Springs Pine Lake Pinion Pines Scenic So-Hi Truxton Valentine Valle Vista Walnut Creek White Hills Wikieup Willow Valley Yucca

Unincorporated communities	Athos Bonelli Landing Booze Crossing Butler Catfish Paradise Cyclopic Fivemile Landing Franconia Grasshopper Junction Greenwood Griffith Harris Haviland Larneds Landing Nothing Topock Walapai

Indian reservations	Fort Mojave Indian Reservation Hualapai Indian Reservation Kaibab Indian Reservation

Ghost towns	Alamo Crossing Aubrey Camp Beale Springs Cedar Cerbat Cottonia Eastbridge Fort Mohave Frisco Germa Golconda Gold Basin Goldflat Goldroad Grand Gulch Greenwood City Hardyville Henning Iretaba City Lincolnia Liverpool Landing Lost Basin Macnab McCracken Mellen Mineral City Mineral Park Mockingbird Mohave City Mount Trumbull Murphyville Old Trails Pearce Ferry Polhamus Landing Powell Pyramid Sandy Santa Claus Signal Snowball Stockton Tuweep Virginia City Vivian Willow Ranch Wolf Hole

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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