
Fort Yuma - Winterhaven, CA
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saopaulo1
N 32° 43.834 W 114° 37.060
11S E 723248 N 3623928
Fort Yuma is a historic fort in California. The site is currently part of the Quechan Indian reservation.
Waymark Code: WMCHBX
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/08/2011
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"Fort Yuma is a fort in California that is located in Imperial County, across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona. It was on the Butterfield Overland Mail route from 1858 until 1861 and was abandoned May 16, 1883, and transferred to the Department of the Interior. The Fort Yuma Indian School and a mission now occupy the site. It is one of the "associated sites" listed as Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites on the National Register of Historic Places in the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area.
Fort Yuma is now within the Quechan Indian Reservation. Numerous historic buildings remain from the military period in the Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites in the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area. The Yuma Territorial Prison and Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Parks are in Arizona with buildings preserved or reconstructed, and with museums." (
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