| Black Hills (Yavapai County) Mingus Mountain |
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| Mountain Range | |
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View looking up the escarpment, (from western Verde Valley)
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Arizona |
| Region | Arizona transition zone ((north-central)-Sonoran Desert) |
| District | Yavapai County, Arizona |
| Borders on | Verde River & Valley-NE Lonesome Valley-NW Mazatzal Mountains-SE Bradshaw Mountains-SW |
| City | Clarkdale, AZ–Cottonwood, AZ Camp Verde, AZ |
| Landmark | Cherry Ghost Town, AZ (Jerome, AZ) |
| River | Verde River |
| Coordinates | |
| Highest point | Mingus Mountain |
| - location | Black Hills |
| - elevation | 7,726 ft (2,355 m) |
| - coordinates | |
| Length | 45 mi (72 km), NW-SE |
| Width | 15 mi (24 km) |
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Black Hills (Yavapai County)
in Arizona |
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The Black Hills of Yavapai County are a large mountain range of north-central Arizona in southeast Yavapai County. It is bordered on the northeast, and in the south on the east by the southeast-flowing Verde River in the Verde Valley. From the southeast mountain section, the northwest section is bisected by Interstate 17, which is the route between Phoenix, Sedona, Oak Creek Canyon, and Flagstaff. This bisection point is the approximate center of the mostly northwest by southeast trending range. The northwest section contains a steep escarpment on the northeast with the Verde Valley, the escarpment being the cause of the fault-block that created the available mining district at Jerome, Arizona, which is a major historical and tourist landmark of the Black Hills range.
This Black Hills range is also the first major fault-blocked range west of the Mogollon Rim on the southwest of the Colorado Plateau of the states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. The range is at the northwest-center of the Arizona transition zone which extends diagonally across central Arizona.
Another range, the Black Hills (Greenlee County) is found in eastern Arizona on the Gila River.
The high point of the Black Hills (Arizona) is Mingus Mountain at 7,726 feet (2,355 m).[1]
Three wilderness areas are located in the range, the Woodchute Wilderness in the northwest, and the Cedar Bench and Pine Mountain Wildernesses in the southeast.
The center of the range is in the south of the north section with Mingus Mountain, south of historical Cherry, Arizona. Cherry, AZ is located at .