Peacock Mountains

Peacock Mountains
Peacock Mountains in Arizona
Highest point
Peak	Peacock Peak (Arizona) (center of range, ridgeline to north)
Elevation	6,293 ft (1,918 m)
Coordinates	35°18′16″N 113°46′22″W / 35.3044°N 113.7727°W / 35.3044; -113.7727
Dimensions
Length	26 mi (42 km) N-S
Width	10 mi (16 km) (about 14-mi at south)
Geography
Country	United States
State	Arizona
Regions	(northwest)-Arizona transition zone (southeast)-Mojave Desert (north)-Sonoran Desert (west & southwest)-Colorado Plateau (east-northeast)-Basin and Range
County	Mohave
Communities	Valle Vista, (Hackberry) and (Kingman)
Range coordinates	35°18′N 113°46′W / 35.3°N 113.77°W / 35.3; -113.77Coordinates: 35°18′N 113°46′W / 35.3°N 113.77°W / 35.3; -113.77
Borders on	Cerbat Mountains-NW Music Mountains-Grand Wash Cliffs-N Cottonwood Mountains-Cottonwood Cliffs-E Aquarius Mountains-Knight Creek-SE Hualapai Mountains-S Hualapai Valley-NW

The Peacock Mountains are a small, 26-mi (42 km) long mountain range in northwest Arizona, USA. The range is a narrow sub-range, and an extension north, at the northeast of the Hualapai Mountains massif, which lies to the southwest. The range is defined by the Hualapai Valley to the northwest, and north and south-flowing washes on its east border, associated with faults and cliffs; the Cottonwood Cliffs (Cottonwood Mountains) are due east, and are connected to the Aquarius Cliffs southward at the west perimeter of the Aquarius Mountains; the cliffs are a result of the Aquarius Fault, which is an extension southward from the Grand Wash Cliffs and Grand Wash Fault which crosses the Colorado River at Lake Mead, and the west perimeter of the Grand Canyon/Colorado Plateau.

The Peacock Mountains, are a smaller, lower elevation range, only about 10-mi (16 km) wide. Peacock Peak (Arizona), 6,293 feet (1,918 m) is the range highpoint, in the approximate center of the range, with a ridgeline north to the range terminus (13-mi). At the north terminus, Arizona State Route 66 transits northeast to southeast around the range; the Grand Wash Cliffs lie due north; the northwest-trending Hualapai Valley extends from the terminus, and the Grand Wash Cliffs form its east border, also forming the southwest border of the Music Mountains; the cliffs extend approximately 100-mi northwards approaching southwest Utah.

The east side of the Peacock Mountains are defined by due-north and due-south flowing drainages on the west of the Cottonwood Cliffs. At the approximate mountain range center, a water divide finds Hackberry Wash flowing due-north to Truxton Wash, which descends from the northeast, (off east Music Mountains, and west region Aubrey Valley). Truxton Wash meets the northeast of the Peacock Mountains, then turns due northwest at the Peacock Mountains foothills, to enter the southeast of Hualapai Valley.