The Date Creek Mountains is a short, arid range in southwest Yavapai County, Arizona . Congress is on its southeast foothills, and Wickenburg lies 15 mi (24 km) southeast.
7-701: The short range is only about 13 mi (21 km) long. The Date Creek Mountains are located in the western region of the Arizona transition zone on its southwest. It borders the lower elevation Sonoran Desert to the southwest, where U.S. Route 93 in Arizona travels northwest x southeast, from Phoenix, Arizona to Kingman, Arizona , a stretch called the Joshua Tree Highway ; the Yucca brevifolia Joshua trees find their southeast range here, as does an extension southeast of
14-654: Is the basin draining north to Alamo Lake. The Date Creek's lie to the ENE, the Aguila Valley lies to the southeast. The Poachie Range massif and the Arrastra Mountain Wilderness anchor this basin to the north, and northwest of the Date Creek Mountains. The highpoint of the range is on its southeast, Tenderfoot Hill, 3,477 feet (1,060 m). The major mountain ranges that are thrusted northwesterly in
21-678: The Basin and Range region of lower-elevation deserts in the southwest and south. Northwest Arizona transitions to the lower elevation Mojave Desert of southern California , Nevada and Utah , with an indicator species of Joshua trees and other species, and southwestwards regions of the Sonoran Desert , along the Lower Colorado River Valley ; in Arizona's south, all of central and eastern desert Sonoran Desert regions merge southwards into Sonora Mexico . The transition zone includes
28-734: The Chuska Mountains region of the northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico . The transition zone is dominated by the Mogollon Plateau at the southern edge of the Coconino Plateau of the Flagstaff region and the San Francisco volcanic field ; the Mogollon Rim borders the plateau which extends from Oak Creek Canyon on the west, to the east at the highest elevations of Arizona in
35-523: The Maria fold and thrust belt region are, from north to south: Some of the thirty landforms in the fold-and-thrust-belt listed in a circular path around these three ranges are: Arizona transition zone The Arizona transition zone is a diagonal northwest-by-southeast region across central Arizona . The region is a transition from the higher-elevation Colorado Plateau in Northeast Arizona and
42-679: The Mogollon Rim and the White Mountains and extends into western New Mexico . In the Arizona ecoregion section, the Arizona transition zone is the major section of the EPA designated, Level III ecoregion, Arizona/New Mexico Mountains ecoregion . The other two outlier subregions to the transition zone in Arizona, are the Kaibab Plateau of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon , and associated ranges of
49-527: The Mojave Desert . The Date Creek Range is also on the northeast border of landforms creating the separation between the southeast Mojave and northwest Sonoran Deserts . The region is named the Maria fold and thrust belt but here, southwest of the Date Creek's is the northwest of the region where three-ranges, and two-intermontane-valleys line parallel in an arc-shape . At these parallel landforms' northeast
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