Mission Camp

Mission Camp
Locale
Mission Camp Location in the state of Arizona, (approximate)
Coordinates: 32°40′33″N 114°13′9″W / 32.67583°N 114.21917°WCoordinates: 32°40′33″N 114°13′9″W / 32.67583°N 114.21917°W
Country	United States
State	Arizona
County	Yuma
Founded	1858
Abandoned	1879
Population
• Total	0
Time zone	MST (no DST) (UTC-7)

Mission Camp, a Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach station, located about four and a half miles northwest of Wellton on the south bank of the Gila River, in Yuma County, Arizona. It was located 11.49 miles east of Gila City, Arizona and 4.51 miles west of Fillibusters Camp and 15.14 miles west of Antelope Hill, a later station.^[1][2]

During the American Civil War, in 1862, Detachment at Mission Camp, a Union Army garrisoned a post at the stage station, held by California Volunteers, located about 35 miles east of Yuma.

After stagecoach travel resumed in the late 1860s Mission Camp became a stagecoach station once again until the railroad came into Arizona from Yuma, making it obsolete in 1879.

References

1. List of Stations from New York Times, October 14 1858, Itinerary of the Route
2. THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A COMPILATION OF THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES. CHAPTER LXII. OPERATIONS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. JANUARY 1, 1861–JUNE 30, 1865. PART I., CORRESPONDENCE., pp.710-712, Journal of the march of Companies E, G, and H, First Infantry California Volunteers, commanded by Lieut. Col. Joseph R. West, from Camp Latham to Fort Yuma.