Willow Valley’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Willow Valley. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusWillow Valley is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,059 as of the 2020 census.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,062 people in 2010, 1,059 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1988.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Willow Valley yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Willow Valley’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Willow Valley’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewHoover Dam, Circuits 1-15, U.S. H…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Willow Valley, decade by decade
2000
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Nothing in Willow Valley is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Willow Valley has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is El Garces in Needles, 6.1 miles away.
Willow Valley and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Hoover Dam, Circuits 1-15, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.