Nortons Landing, Arizona

Norton's Landing or Norton's, was a steamboat landing on the Colorado River, in what was then Yuma County, Arizona Territory. Today it is a ghost town in La Paz County, Arizona. Nortons Landing was 52 miles up river from Yuma, Arizona 4 miles above Picacho, California and 18 miles below the Clip, Arizona landing. It lay on a rocky point of land next to the river at 215 feet of elevation just east of Red Cloud Wssh and Black Rock Wash, where roads to the district mines in the mountains, met the Colorado River.

Nortons Landing, Arizona

Norton's Landing or Norton's, was a steamboat landing on the Colorado River, in what was then Yuma County, Arizona Territory. Today it is a ghost town in La Paz County, Arizona. Nortons Landing was 52 miles up river from Yuma, Arizona 4 miles above Picacho, California and 18 miles below the Clip, Arizona landing. It lay on a rocky point of land next to the river at 215 feet of elevation just east of Red Cloud Wssh and Black Rock Wash, where roads to the district mines in the mountains, met the Colorado River.