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Alamo Crossing

Ghost town · La Paz County, Arizona

Artillery Peak quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1966, 1:62,500)
Artillery Peak quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1966, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Alamo Crossing is a ghost town in La Paz County, Arizona. It is one of 7 former communities in La Paz County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 9th among the 15 Arizona counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Alamo Crossing as a historical populated place on the Artillery Peak topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 34.2606° N, 113.5827° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleArtillery Peak
Elevation1,097 ft
Nearest living townAlamo Lake, AZ
Distance to it4.7 miles
GNIS feature ID25299
Coordinates34.26058, -113.58271

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Alamo Crossing today, aerial view
Artillery Peak quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1966, 1:62,500)

Left: Artillery Peak quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1966, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Alamo Crossing is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Alamo Lake, AZ (population 3), about 4.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,097 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Alamo Crossing?

Alamo Crossing is in La Paz County, Arizona, at 34.2606, -113.5827.

How many ghost towns are in La Paz County?

La Paz County, Arizona has 7 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.