Date Creek Mountains
Date Creek Mountains Date Creek Mountains inArizona
Highest point
Peak	Tenderfoot Hill, Date Creek Mountains (east terminus)
Elevation	3,477 ft (1,060 m)
Coordinates	34°10′38″N112°51′33″W / 34.1772°N 112.8591°W /34.1772; -112.8591
Dimensions
Length	13 mi (21 km) E-W
Geography
Country	United States
State	Arizona
Region(s)	(northwest)-Sonoran Desert (Maria fold and thrust belt)
District	Yavapai County
Community	Congress, Arizona
Borders on	Weaver Mountains-NE Vulture Mountains-SE Aguila Valley-S McMullen Valley-SW Butler Valley &Harcuvar Mtns-WSW Alamo Lake-W Maria fold and thrust belt–NW, W & SW

TheDate Creek Mountains is a short, arid range in southwestYavapai County, Arizona.Congress is on its southeast foothills, andWickenburg lies 15 mi (24 km) southeast.

The short range is only about 13 mi (21 km) long. The Date Creek Mountains are located in the western region of theArizona transition zone on its southwest. It borders the lower elevationSonoran Desert to the southwest, whereU.S. Route 93 in Arizona travels northwest x southeast, fromPhoenix, Arizona toKingman, Arizona, a stretch called theJoshua Tree Highway; theYucca brevifolia Joshua trees find their southeast range here, as does an extension southeast of theMojave Desert.

The Date Creek Range is also on the northeast border of landforms creating the separation between the southeast Mojave and northwestSonoran Deserts. The region is named theMaria fold and thrust belt but here, southwest of the Date Creek's is the northwest of the region where three-ranges, and two-intermontane-valleys line parallel in anarc-shape. At these parallel landforms' northeast is the basin draining north to Alamo Lake. The Date Creek's lie to the ENE, theAguila Valley lies to the southeast. ThePoachie Rangemassif and theArrastra Mountain Wilderness anchor this basin to the north, and northwest of the Date Creek Mountains.

The highpoint of the range is on its southeast, Tenderfoot Hill, 3,477 feet (1,060 m).^[1]

The major mountain ranges that are thrustednorthwesterly in theMaria fold and thrust belt region are, from north to south:

• Buckskin Mountains
• Butler Valley (Arizona)
• Harcuvar Mountains
• McMullen Valley
• Harquahala Mountains

Some of the thirty landforms in the fold-and-thrust-belt listed in a circular path around these three ranges are:

1. NE,Alamo Lake State Park, NE Buckskin Mtns;
2. Access roads fromU.S. Route 93, northwest, dirt, and southwest,Arizona State Route 71 terminating atAguila, Arizona, at the northeast of the Harquahala's;
3. Southeast of the Harquahalas, three mountain ranges, and the Hassayampa and Harquahala Plains-(Harquahala Valley);
4. The southwest and west perimeter of the three ranges is theBouse Wash Drainage; the drainage is in the Ranegras Plain, but two small ranges, and the Bouse Hills abut the perimeter as well;
5. The northwest abuts theCactus Plain and theCactus Plain Wilderness;
6. The northwest also has the Buckskin Mountains extending into awestern section at the confluence of the Colorado and Bill Williams Rivers.Buckskin Mountain State Park is located here.
7. TheBill Williams River downstream fromAlamo Lake State Park is the northern border of the three ranges, as well as the de facto border of fold-and-thrust-belt. The river is also a dividing line between theMojave Desert north and northwest, and theSonoran Desert, south and southeast; in California, theColorado Desert subsection of the Sonoran Desert lies southwest.

• Maria fold and thrust belt

• "Tenderfoot Hill Park", trails.com, (coordinates)

• Arizona transition zone mountain ranges
• Mountain ranges of Yavapai County, Arizona
• Mountain ranges of Arizona

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