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Ghost town in Arizona, United States
Dome, Arizona
Ghost town
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Coordinates: 32°45′19″N 114°21′44″W / 32.75528°N 114.36222°W / 32.75528; -114.36222
CountryUnited States
StateArizona
CountyYuma
Founded1858
Abandoned1940
Elevation194 ft (59 m)
Population
 • Total0
Time zoneUTC-7 (MST (no DST))
Post Office openedDecember 24, 1858
Post Office closedJuly 14, 1863

Dome (O'odham: Hi:lo) is a ghost town located in Yuma County, in southwestern Arizona, United States. It is located in the Dome Valley south of the Gila River. Originally Swiveler's Station, 20 miles (32 km) east of Fort Yuma on the Butterfield Overland Mail route, a post office was established here in 1858. It was first under the name of Gila City, the nearby boomtown one and a half miles (2.4 km) west of Swiveler's, but the post office closed July 14, 1863, after most of the town was swept away in the Great Flood of 1862, and then abandoned for the La Paz gold rush along the Colorado River. After the railroad passed by the site and an attempt at large scale mining of the placers began, a new post office was established as Dome in 1892 but soon closed when the attempt failed. Subsequently it opened and closed several times before finally closing in 1940.

Today the site lies along the Union Pacific's Sunset Route and a road that follows the old Overland stage route, south of the Wellton-Mohawk canal and Gila River. All that remains on the site is a large adobe building, one small adobe remnant and foundations. There is a cemetery nearby to the west.

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dome
  2. "Eldred D. Wilson, "Gold Placers and Placering in Arizona", Bulletin 168, State of Arizona, Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch, A Division of the University of Arizona, Reprinted 1981, p.18" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 21, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
  3. James E. Sherman, Barbara H. Sherman, Ghost Towns of Arizona, University of Oklahoma Press, 1969, p.60
  4. Dome from ghosttowns.com

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Municipalities and communities of Yuma County, Arizona, United States
County seat: Yuma
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Footnotes‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
Butterfield Overland Mail 3rd Division Stations
Source: "List of Butterfield Overland Mail Stations "Itinerary of the Route"" (PDF). New York Times. October 14, 1858.
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