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Old 08-01-2009, 11:58 AM
 
Location: The #1 sunshine state, Arizona.
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7-Day Forecast for Latitude 35.58°N and Longitude 114.24°W (Elev. 4048 ft) See the body of water North of Kingman?

 
Old 08-02-2009, 12:15 PM
 
Location: Arizona High Desert
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Here is a lake.

The end of Cottonwood Road, AZ side of Lake Mohave - Kingman Photo Album - [domain blocked due to spam]
 
Old 08-02-2009, 12:33 PM
 
Location: Full time RV"er
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I couldn't make this up if I tried:
You won't get hired in this town unless you're family...or, a "very important person". That Hoover Dam By-Pass Project should certainly by-pass this town, serve it right! (and probably will). Dolan Springs is nothing but retirees, bums, thieves, druggies, escapees from who-knows-what, and other ne'er do wells. Everyone around here tries to chump you. ... I think the behavior of this town is due to the drinking water, and the huge antenna tower blasting out 150 million megawatts of microwave power, and whatever's blowing around from the ground. This place is windy, dry and un-forgiving. The town has no character whatsoever--not a shade tree to sit under, not a public fountain, nothing...WHY, why, why do they call it Dolan SPRINGS??? The buildings in town look like they've were thrown together with absolutely no planning or fore-thought...surprise! The library is open late on Thursday nights, other times it's a few hours here and there. If they were open more often, perhaps the punks in this town would have somewhere to go, and if they weren't careful, they just might learn something, rather than follow in their mommies or daddies footsteps. The school system here is a joke, the lowest SAT scores in the state. Teen-age girls are walking the streets with a couple of babies already, their "ol' men" are in jail, or with someone else...an old saying here goes, "You don't loose your girl, you just loose your turn!" The "park" is another joke, full of goatheads, maybe 2 trees, a "baseball diamond" that I've never seen used, (it's all weeds, who wants to slide into home on that!) and a bunch of un-watered Oleanders. No grass to walk on, everything around here is sterile dirt with lotsa, lotsa mean-ass weeds. Good luck in getting anything else to grow, even the Joshua trees that have been here for thousands of years are starting to keel over. No fireworks, either, they quit that around 10 years ago, because (the fire dept sez) no one donated to the fireworks fund.... The only annual events are things like "Dolan Days" or "Loyalty Days", and that's just here to plump up the buisness owners coffers...this town isn't interested in really having fun, just for the sake of it. They are actually anti-customer here. They don't care about the average, honest dude. The only market in town, the Double D, (double de prices) is dingy and over-priced, and talk about fresh: yeah, if you like your meat green and your lettuce brown! The service you're over-paying for is slow... and... tedious... and... ignorant. You can't even buy any type of magazine in this town. Thank God they finally put in a new Family Dollar store, and for the first time ever you can find a place to buy make-up and other things like in a "real" store. And believe me, a lot of these women here need a good make-over, what with their missing teeth and tatoos all over their bodies, more than a man would ever sport! The two places that have regular customers are the VFW and American Legion. What does that tell ya? And these two so-called patriotic joints are constantly bickering with each other. The only gas station closes at 7pm, 6 pm on Sunday. The prices they gouge are "tourist prices" but the locals, who don't have much, (and can't say much 'cuz they got us over a barrel), also have to pay these same ridiculous prices. Pretty much they roll up the sidewalk at 8pm or so. The sheriff's run up and down the only paved road through town like a bunch of wild street cops, and the county of Mohave isn't satisified until they squeeze your last dollar, impound your vehicle and in general inconvience you as much as possible. The county seat is in Kingman, about 40 miles from here. You have to go there for everything: driver's license, welfare, court, fast foods, a decent beautician, you name it. This is a poor town, a lot of people here aren't able to drive to Kingman all the time. Most of the homes here are ramshackle and unkempt. I could go on, but if you want to move here for the scenery, great---until someone in the next lot over builds a 3 story home and blocks all your wonderful view! Or, if you want to move here for the clean water, go ahead---the prices keep rising and the grossly mis-managed water company doesn't seem to want to run more water lines OR show ya any latest water test results. Or...if ya wanna move here for the clean air, good for you!...the wind blows constantly, dust, pollen and trash blowing everywhere, all the time. Hooooowdy, stranger!
NEED TO JUST SAY THANKS FOR ALL THE POS. COMMENTS ! about Dolan Springs. A friend just bought 21 acres off Cottonwood Rd. Its got pads for 5 RV's willl be there in October for the winter . Hope nothing changes between now and then would hate to ruin a nice place with a lot of "City folk " if you know what i mean. I am from the ald school ya know " god helps those that help them self's , don't need much in the way of Government help !
 
Old 08-02-2009, 12:52 PM
 
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NEED TO JUST SAY THANKS FOR ALL THE POS. COMMENTS ! about Dolan Springs. A friend just bought 21 acres off Cottonwood Rd. Its got pads for 5 RV's willl be there in October for the winter . Hope nothing changes between now and then would hate to ruin a nice place with a lot of "City folk " if you know what i mean. I am from the ald school ya know " god helps those that help them self's , don't need much in the way of Government help !



 
Old 08-03-2009, 06:51 AM
 
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NEED TO JUST SAY THANKS FOR ALL THE POS. COMMENTS ! about Dolan Springs. A friend just bought 21 acres off Cottonwood Rd. Its got pads for 5 RV's willl be there in October for the winter . Hope nothing changes between now and then would hate to ruin a nice place with a lot of "City folk " if you know what i mean. I am from the ald school ya know " god helps those that help them self's , don't need much in the way of Government help !
Welcome...and, it can't all be positive, ya know!
 
Old 08-03-2009, 05:28 PM
 
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Tom White said there was a spring in the small mountain SE of the old ranch house that fed water into a round reservoir east of the house for the cattle. It was called Dolan Springs. The original ranch was 86,000 acres, part private, part federal grazing land. You can see the checkerboard federal sections if you have a street map. This land was sold to the railroad before they put in tracks up to 50 miles on each side to get them to run a railroad out west. I think the price was 50 cents an acre. The reason for the checkerboarding is that some idiot suggested the railroad buy every other section but control the grazing rights to the federal land giving them twice as much land to rent to ranchers.
 
Old 08-03-2009, 06:01 PM
 
Location: Full time RV"er
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Welcome...and, it can't all be positive, ya know!
I know but why is it that every one want spoil the simple life with change and growth, only to complain now that a place has grown ? wishing it was like it used to be. You know the old saying don't try to fix something that isan't broken, well Dolan Springs is not broken it is fine just the way it is .
 
Old 08-03-2009, 10:16 PM
 
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I know but why is it that every one want spoil the simple life with change and growth, only to complain now that a place has grown ? wishing it was like it used to be. You know the old saying don't try to fix something that isan't broken, well Dolan Springs is not broken it is fine just the way it is .
I'm just tellin' it like it is...I don't understand why some people don't get it. If you like it here, that's O. K., too ; I like the simple life also. I only tried to show a different perspective--some things aren't as rosy as people want to believe. There's two sides, the other side is not always pretty. Sometimes it gets pretty darn ugly!
 
Old 08-08-2009, 09:33 AM
 
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dian-az has told it pretty much like it is about Dolan Springs, also often referred to as "Stolen Springs" due to all the meth addict thieves. The place like anywhere has it's good and bad, but you don't want to get started talking about the local contract post office or the water company, because they are the worst of the worst.
 
Old 08-08-2009, 09:38 AM
 
Location: Mesa, Az
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dian-az has told it pretty much like it is about Dolan Springs, also often referred to as "Stolen Springs" due to all the meth addict thieves. The place like anywhere has it's good and bad, but you don't want to get started talking about the local contract post office or the water company, because they are the worst of the worst.
Unfortunately; Mohave County has a bad rep nationwide due to its horrific Meth problem.

I remember a friend of mine living in Arkansas commenting on it...........that is pretty damn bad.

Bummer because many parts of Mohave County are actually quite pretty.
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