5-791: Granite Wash Pass is a gap between the Granite Wash Mountains and the Little Harquahala Mountains , in La Paz County, Arizona . Granite Wash Pass is located at the southwest end of the Granite Wash Mountains and the northwest end of the Little Harquahala Mountains. The apex of the pass is at an elevation of 1,834 feet/559 meters. The Granite Wash Pass has been a route between the Colorado River and
10-561: A few years as a result of the extreme rainfall in Arizona by the storms that caused the Great Flood of 1862 . Also stations for the stage lines like the one at Desert Station and the original watering place at Flint's had developed wells that provided more water. Today the pass contains the Arizona and California Railroad line, as well as U.S. Route 60 in Arizona from Hope on the west side of
15-430: A gap is most often carved by water erosion from a freshet , stream or a river . Gaps created by freshets are often, if not normally, devoid of water through much of the year, their streams being dependent upon the meltwaters of a snow pack . Gaps sourced by small springs will generally have a small stream excepting perhaps during the most arid parts of the year. Water gaps of necessity often cut entirely through
20-491: The interior of Arizona from November 1863 when teamsters Gird and Sage discovered a route what became the La Paz–Wikenburg Road through Granite Wash Pass. In the early years a waterhole, Granite Water existed within the pass. The maps of the route in later years, Granite Water is no longer mentioned. Perhaps it was insufficient or had dried up. Granite Water might have been a temporary spring or waterhole created for
25-426: The pass and Harcuvar, Arizona on the east. 33°44′53″N 113°40′25″W / 33.74806°N 113.67361°W / 33.74806; -113.67361 Gap (landform) A gap is a geological formation that is a low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range . It may be called a col , notch, pass , saddle , water gap , or wind gap . Geomorphologically ,
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