Daisy Mountain rises about 3190 feet above sea level and has a old and rich history being 1.4 to 2.0 billion years old.

Daisy Mountain is a complex of meta-volcanic and meta-sedimentary rocks. It is not and never has been a volcano.  The term meta indicates that the protolith (parent) volcanic or sedimentary rock has been metamorphosed, which results in recrystallization of the original minerals into mineral forms/compositions stable at the higher temperatures and pressures encountered when rocks are buried deep in the Earth's crust. The original edifice (volcano) that produced the mountains volcanics would have been active nearly 2-billion years ago.  All that remains of that original edifice are some of the volcanic deposits -- lava flows and perhaps some pyroclastic tuffs. Click on here for more.....

Wildlife (including birds, javeina, deer, pack rats, desert tortoise, bobcats, skunks, snakes, occasional cougars, and so much more) have always depended on the  mountain.

Hohokam Indians settled in the area around 600-800 AD. There may have been hunter-gathers before that. The Spaniard explorers were probably in the area by the 1500’s. As far as we know (and we are always finding out more), no one else settled in the area for a long time. Sheepherders and others passed through but settlement did not come until about the mid-1800’s when a few ranchers were in the area.

By 1881 there was a New River Stage Stop just west of the mountain. In the 1930’s the land around the mountain was opened to homesteading and the area has continued to grow ever since.  In the 1940’s there was some mining activity on the mountain – a little magnesium and perhaps copper. The mines have long since been abandoned.

 

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