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Established:  1863

Incorporated:  1909

Elevation:  2,100 feet

Area:  12.5 square miles

Hottest month of the year: July (average high temperature of 105.6 F degrees)

Coldest month of the year: December (average low temperature of 31.9 F degrees

Average precipitation: 10.77 inches per year

Wickenburg is known as the Dude Ranch Capital of the World.

In the fall of 1863, German immigrant, Henry Wickenburg, was prospecting for gold in Indian country. In the distance, he saw a white quartz hilltop sparkling in the sun with a black vulture circling ominously above it.  Among the quartz crystals, he found chunks of free gold.  The Vulture Mine, perhaps Arizona’s richest gold mine,... Read more >>

• Desert Caballeros Western Museum
• Nature Conservancy – Hassayampa River Preserve
• Robson’s Arizona Mining World
• Vulture Mine
• Old 761 Santa Fe Steam Locomotive