Desert Wells, originally Desert Station, a stagecoach station on the La Paz–Wickenburg Road in the 1870s, is a populated place in La Paz County, Arizona, United States.
It lies at an elevation of 1,132 feet / 345 meters and is located 4.7 miles west-southwest of Vicksburg on U.S. Route 60.
In 1875, it was seen by Martha Summerhayes, and later described in her book Vanished Arizona: At night we arrived at Desert Station.
One is always imagining things about people who live in such extraordinary places.
[2]: 144 Desert Station appears on Arizona Territory maps between 1875 and 1880,[3][4] and an itineraries in 1878.