Tag: Bouse
Bouse (pronounced to rhyme with “house”) is a census-designated place (CDP) in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1908 as a mining camp, the economy of Bouse is now based on tourism, agriculture and retirees. The population was 615 at the 2000 census.
Bouse is located at 33°56′1″N 114°0′30″W / 33.93361°N 114.00833°W / 33.93361; -114.00833 (33.933657, -114.008268).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 10.1 square miles (26 km), all of it land.
Camp Bouse, 20 miles east in Butler Valley, is the former site of a World War II US Army tank training camp. Although the buildings are gone, a few foundations remain, as do some of the tank tracks from World War II. There is a Camp Bouse memorial monument in Bouse.
As of the census of 2000, there were 615 people, 320 households, and 207 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 60.9 people per square mile (23.5/km²). There were 562 housing units at an average density of 55.7…