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Camp Date Creek

Yavapai County · At the Date Creek crossing on Arizona Highway 93, on the east side of the bridge or turnout. · location approximate

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CAMP DATE CREEK (Established 1867) In 1871 this camp became Date Creek Agency, where Mohave-Apaches were given food rations in vain attempts to stop their raids. Here, in 1872 General Crook's troops killed eight Indians who were thought to have participated in the notorious Wickenburg Massacre of a stagecoach.

Named in the Arizona Department of Transportation's 1997 list of markers standing in its right of way. That 1997 list covers only state highway right of way, so it does not reach markers on city streets, on tribal land, or in state and national parks.

1958 text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people. The book proposed 100 markers for Arizona's highways and records 14 as cast when it went to press.

Arizona still marks its history under the same law: the State Historical Advisory Commission approves a marker, the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records certifies that its text is authentic and historically correct, and the Arizona Department of Transportation erects and maintains the markers on state highway right-of-way. Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Historical Markers in Arizona, Vols. I-II (Arizona Development Board, 1958), text by Bert Fireman

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