Desert Wells, La Paz County, Arizona  Desert Wells, originally Desert Station, a stagecoach station on the La Paz - Wikenburg Road in the 1870s, is a populated place in La Paz County, Arizona. It lies at an elevation of 1,132 feet/ 345 meters. It is located 4.7 miles west southwest of Vicksburg on U.S. Route 60 in Arizona. Desert Wells was originally known as Desert Station, a stagecoach station on the La Paz - Wikenburg Road, in what was then Yuma County. It lay 26 miles from Tyson's Wells to the west and 20 miles from Flint's on Centennial Wash to the east. In 1875, it was seen by Martha Summerhayes, and later described in her book "Vanished Arizona":   Desert Station appears on Arizona Territory maps between 1875 and 1880, and an itineraries in 1878. The name was retained for many years. It took its present form because it had a 120 foot well.