11 miles away
Swansea
A ghost town in La Paz County, settled around 1909 to mine, process and smelt copper ore from the surrounding claims.
Camp Bouse
A secret camp of the US Army's Desert Training Center in western Arizona, 25 miles from the town of Bouse.
- Rank in Arizona
- #241of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 44.5 out of 100medium confidence
- Most looked up
- Novemberby Wikipedia readers
- Category
- Historic Site
Camp Bouse was a secret camp of the United States Army's Desert Training Center, in western Arizona. It lay 25 miles from Bouse, just north of Arizona State Route 72 and about 50 miles north of Interstate 10.
Where it is
Camp Bouse is a historic site near Wenden, in La Paz County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Camp Bouse, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Wenden
- County
- La Paz County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 44.5 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 28.3
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 34.0320, -113.7360
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12