Valentine Arizona Map

About Valentine, Arizona

Valentine is a locality in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. It is a small community with a population of 25. The population density is 10.4 people per km². Valentine is located at 35.3875°N, 113.6577°W. It observes the Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) timezone. ZIP code: 86437.

Valentine exists as a quiet punctuation mark upon the vast Mohave landscape, a scatter of weathered structures against a canvas of ochre earth and pale, distant mesas. It lies 26.2 miles east-north-east of Kingman, AZ (from Kingman, AZ: bearing 58°T), and is situated 11.7 miles east of Valle Vista. The air here carries the dry, mineral tang of the desert, a scent that clings to everything like the fine dust that settles on scrubby creosote and brittlebush. Sunlight, relentless and unfiltered for much of the year, bleaches the paint from old signs and warms the stones underfoot, lending a faint shimmer to the horizon where the land seems to dissolve into the vast, cloudless expanse. Even the wind, when it stirs, feels ancient, whispering secrets of the ages through the sparse, resilient vegetation that stubbornly claims this arid domain. The history of Valentine is inextricably linked to the hardy souls who sought fortune and passage through this unforgiving territory, their endeavors echoing in the remnants of forgotten mining claims and the ghost towns that lie scattered like forgotten memories in the surrounding hills. For a time, the lure of mineral wealth pulsed through this region, a transient heartbeat that has since subsided, leaving behind a more enduring, if less dramatic, economy rooted in the quiet sustenance of ranching and the slow, deliberate pace of desert life. The land itself, a geological marvel of sculpted sandstone and ancient riverbeds, offers a stark beauty that draws a particular kind of visitor, those seeking solitude and the profound silence of a place where the stars blaze with an almost violent intensity in the ink-black night.

About This Valentine Map Page

This page provides an interactive Google map of Valentine, Arizona with street, satellite and terrain views and integrated Street View imagery. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Valentine and Mohave County.

Detailed location data for Valentine includes the ZIP code (86437), telephone area code (435), county seat of Mohave County (Kingman), and school district assignment (Valentine Elementary District). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Valentine is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.