Horse Thief Basin, Arizona

Horse Thief Basin, Arizona
Populated place
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Coordinates: 34°9′40″N 112°17′35″W / 34.16111°N 112.29306°W / 34.16111; -112.29306Coordinates: 34°9′40″N 112°17′35″W / 34.16111°N 112.29306°W / 34.16111; -112.29306
Country	United States
State	Arizona
County	Yavapai
Time zone	UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (MST)
Area code(s)	928
FIPS code	04-33420
GNIS feature ID	42834

Horse Thief Basin is a populated place situated in Yavapai County, Arizona. It has an estimated elevation of 2,920 feet (890 m) above sea level.^[1] Its name is derived from a ranch which used to exist in the area and be used by several notorious horse rustlers as an area to store their stolen merchandise.^[2]^[3]

References

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↑ Barnes, Will Croft (2016). Arizona Place Names. Tucson: Arizona Place Names. pp. 211–12. ISBN 0816534950.
↑ Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. p. 64.

Municipalities and communities of Yavapai County, Arizona, United States
County seat: Prescott
Cities	Cottonwood Peoria‡ Prescott Sedona‡
Towns	Camp Verde Chino Valley Clarkdale Dewey-Humboldt Jerome Prescott Valley Wickenburg‡
CDPs	Ash Fork Bagdad Black Canyon City Congress Cordes Lakes Cornville Lake Montezuma Mayer Paulden Peeples Valley Seligman Spring Valley Verde Village Village of Oak Creek (Big Park) Wilhoit Williamson Yarnell
Populated places	Abra Apron Crossing Arcosanti Arnold Place Audley Aultman Baldwin Place Baldwins Crossing Bear Big Reef Mill Bignotti Breezy Pines Briggs Burro John Casa Rosa Castle Canyon Mesa Cedar Mill Cherry Chilean Mill Cleator Columbia Constellation Copperopolis Crookton Crown King Dandrea Date Deering Park Estates Diamond Valley Drake Dugas East Fort Eddy Place Entro Ferguson Place Windmill Flores Flower Pot Forbing Park Fort Misery Gillett Glen Oaks Goodwin Grand View Granite Basin Summer Homes Granite Dells Granite Siding Groom Creek Hawkins Hecla Highland Park Hillside, Arizona Hooper Horse Thief Basin Humbug Iron Springs Juniper Heights Kirkland Kirkland Junction Lancaster Lapham Lawrence Crossing Lehman Mill Mack McNary Place Minnehaha Mint Nelson Oak Creek Oak Knoll Village Octave Ocotillo P and E Junction Packer Paxton Place Perkinsville Pica Piedmont Pinaveta Potato Patch Red Rock Rimrock Rush Place Windmill Sand Mill Skull Valley South Fort Stanton Sycamore Tapco Tucker Venezia Wagoner Walker Walker Place Windmill Walnut Grove Wildwood Estates Willow Spring Wingfield Wood Trap Yampai Yava Yavapai Hills
Indian reservations	Hualapai Indian Reservation Yavapai Reservation Yavapai-Apache Nation Indian Reservation
Ghost towns	Alexandra American Ranch Apron Crossing Big Bug Bradshaw City Bumble Bee Catoctin Cordes Curtis Jerome Junction Juniper Octave Simmons Tip Top Weaver
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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