Butler Valley is a valley of the Maria fold and thrust belt in western Arizona , USA . It lies east of the Colorado River , and is south of the west-flowing Bill Williams River .
7-563: Butler Valley is one of the two valleys in a (major) three-mountain range, two-valley sequence. Other minor ranges are on the perimeters, but thirty landforms are part of the region. The valley drains southwesterly into the northwest flowing Bouse Wash Drainage. Cunningham Wash drains the valley southwest to meet with the Bouse. The valley also turns somewhat southwest to the north of the Harcuvar Mountains , where Cunningham Pass holds
14-819: Is on Bouse Wash, northeast of the La Posa Plain, between the Bouse Hills and the Plomosa Mountains . Bouse Wash drains into the Colorado River at the north end of the Colorado River Indian Reservation , south of Parker . The Tyson Wash mouth is at the southern end of the reservation. The Bouse Watershed abuts the Tyson Watershed. The Bouse and Tyson Wash river mouths are both on the eastern shore of
21-733: The Buckskin Mountains , a basin forms attached to Butler Valley on the valley's northeast, and with the Black Mountains (Yavapai County) bordered northeast; southeast is another up- drainage basin attached to the northeast of the McMullen Valley , the Aguila Valley to the southeast, and at the southwest of the small range, the Date Creek Mountains . Butler Valley is sparsely populated, with
28-569: The Central Arizona Project . In 2022, The Arizona Republic reported that the state land department had handed over thousands of acres to a Saudi company called Fondamonte, and gave it permission to withdraw unlimited amounts of groundwater to grow alfalfa, which would be exported to Saudi Arabia. The major mountain ranges that are thrust northwesterly in the Maria fold and thrust belt region are, from north to south: Some of
35-525: The 30-mile route, unimproved major access road to Alamo Lake State Park ; the route traverses the Butler Valley in the northeast, then skirts the northeast of the Buckskins to meet the south side of Alamo Lake. The northeast third of the valley drains northeast from a water divide , then north to Alamo Lake only 10 mi distant; Cunningham Wash drains to the southwest. At the northeast end of
42-573: The road to Alamo Lake being the only paved road. The majority of Butler Valley is owned by the Arizona State Land Department . More than 99% of the valley is owned by the state, held in trust for the support of public schools in the state. The valley is used as a reserve for groundwater, to store water from the Colorado River for Arizona. It holds more than 6 million acre-feet of water, and is strategically located near
49-653: The thirty landforms in the fold-and-thrust-belt listed in a circular path around these three ranges are: Bouse Wash Bouse Wash is one of the larger eastern-bank dry washes that enter the Colorado River in the Lower Colorado River Valley . It is located in La Paz County, extreme western Arizona . Bouse Wash is located on the north rim of the La Posa Plain and the south rim of Cactus Plain . The Arizona town of Bouse
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