Littlefield Arizona
Littlefield is an unincorporated town located on Mojave County on the Virgin River eight miles north of Mesquite, Nevada. It is separated from the Arizona Strip by a mountain range and squeezed in a corner of land bordered by Nevada and Utah. Much of Littlefields history is written on a book titled “The Rebers” who was written by Robert and Vinda Reber.
A group of frontiersmen led by Jebediah Strong Smith came to the “Virgen River” from the north in 1826. They came out of the “Narrows,” which was the last narrow part of Virgen gorge and established a camp on Beaver Dam creek. Smith made another trip to the area in 1827 and name “Virgen” was given, now known as Virgin. It was in honor of one of his men named Thomas Virgen who was killed by the Indians. Beaver Dam settlement was later abandoned in 1867 after a flood destroyed much of the area.
There was information about a man named Littlefield who took land a little below the Beaver Dam. It is the area where the present town of Littlefield stands. According to the book “The Rebers,” Littlefields came into existence almost at the same time as Beaver Dam. Beaver Dam and Littlefield were stations along the road where travelers stop in the early days. During the town’s peak, it had a population of almost a hundred.
Today, Littlefield is an isolated town on the northwest corner of Arizona. It remains to be a mixture of old and new. An old empty rock house that is over a hundred years old still stands today. It is a fine example of those early pioneer homes constructed with a few tools and materials obtained locally.
