Tenmile Wash
Tenmile Wash is an ephemeral wash and watercourse about 85 miles long in the northern Sonoran Desert of south-central Arizona. It forms the eastern drainage of a two drainage system of dry washes into the Gila River Valley; both flow northwesterly, and the western drainage is the San Cristobal Wash Drainage of approximately the same length.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Stream
- Description: ephemeral stream in Yuma, Maricopa, and Pima counties in Arizona, United States
- Also known as: “Childs Wash”, “Rio Cornez”, “Rio Cornez Wash”, and “Rio Tenmile Wash”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Palomas and Horn.
Palomas
Hamlet
Palomas is a populated place situated in Yuma County, Arizona, United States. It is located along the Gila River in the Park Valley The location was first settled in the late 1800s, and named Doanville, after one of the first settlers, John Doan. Palomas is situated 2½ miles north of Tenmile Wash.
Horn
Hamlet
The Camp Horn was a sub camp of the US Army, Desert Training Center in Riverside County, California. The main headquarters for the Desert Training Center was Camp Young, this is where General Patton's 3rd Armored Division was stationed. Horn is situated 5 miles north of Tenmile Wash.
Tenmile Wash
- Categories: seasonal river and body of water
- Location: Yuma County, Arizona, Southwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
“Tenmile Wash” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tenmile Wash (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, Arizona)”
- Cebuano: “Tenmile Wash”
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