Golden Valley is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, located halfway between Kingman and Bullhead City.

[2] Golden Valley was named after a company from Hollywood, California, that went into partnership with Crystal Collins to develop most of the land south of Arizona State Route 68 into 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) parcels.

At the eastern end of Golden Valley, Arizona 68 terminates at U.S. Route 93, which leads to Kingman to the south, or Las Vegas, Nevada, to the north.

[3] According to the United States Census Bureau, the Golden Valley CDP has a total area 78.7 square miles (204 km2), all of it land.

Residents work in Golden Valley, Kingman, Bullhead, Laughlin, Lake Havasu and even as far as Las Vegas.

[6] The Arizona State Prison – Kingman has a Golden Valley address and is 10 miles (16 km) south of the community.

It is a for-profit prison operated by GEO Group under contract to hold inmates for the Arizona Department of Corrections.

[11] On July 1, 2 and 4, riots broke out once again at the Arizona State Prison – Kingman, at Golden Valley, which had "a long history of problems."

Nine guards and seven inmates were injured, and the state brought in 96 members of its special tactical unit to quell the disturbances.