Does anyone know the story behind Seven Springs, AZ?

I visited an abandoned settlement near the northern AZ/NV border and am currently in investigator mode (for no reason other than brooding curiosity). The location is pinned below.

The place is bizarre: it is in the middle of nowhere, about 50 miles of dirt to the interstate, and looks as if the tenants just up and left. You pass it on the route to Tassi Ranch in-between Gold Butte and Parashant.

One of the buildings is collapsed, with its original contents simply left there. If abandoned, no attempt has been made to clean the area up (probably due to its remote location). There's an old storage building with a calendar that has the last date of 2004, so it appears to have been unattended for many years now. All signs point to it being a kind of self-sustaining living arrangement: tons of custom contraptions, piped water, ranching equipment.

Typical vandalism is present, but limited to mostly the trailer parked in front and a few broken windows—which makes it a bit more ghostly than other ghost towns. Each building basically stands as the owners last left them. However, nature has done its toll: nothing appears in useable condition.

If anyone has any information, my curiosity is running rampant. I do have a first and last name from a discarded envelope found on the ground, but don't want to give away private info (yet?). The owners seem to have been rancher types from Overton, NV. To my surprise, the envelope has a marked date of 1981.

Map pin: https://www.google.com/maps/place/S...6ccf400c33e80!8m2!3d36.2978726!4d-113.9869805

 

Neena Barlow will have that knowledge/answer. Hit her up on FB.

 

You could query the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management Arizona Strip District.