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La Paz
A gold rush town on the Colorado River, founded in 1862 and long abandoned before La Paz County took its name.
- Rank in Arizona
- #251of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 44.1 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Historic Site
La Paz was a short-lived gold mining town on the Colorado River, on the western border of what is now La Paz County, Arizona; its Yavapai name is Wi:hela. The town grew quickly after gold was discovered nearby in 1862, and was named in recognition of the feast day for Our Lady of Peace, la paz being Spanish for peace. It lay in New Mexico Territory until 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln established the Arizona Territory. In 1863 it was the site of the La Paz Incident, the westernmost confrontation of the American Civil War. It had long been a ghost town by 1983, when the newly formed county adopted its name.
Where it is
La Paz is a historic site near Blythe, 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 La Paz, 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.
Mentioned in
- Arizona's 27 ghost towns publish no visitor count, and 22 of them are still read about — Not one abandoned settlement in this database records an official visitor figure, yet together they drew 136,163 Wikipedia reads in 2024.
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
- Blythe
- County
- La Paz County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 44.1 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 27.5
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 33.6792, -114.4260
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12