Socatoon Station

Socatoon Station was a stagecoach station of the Butterfield Overland Mail between 1858 and 1861. It was located east of Sacaton at a Maricopa village from which it took its name.John P. Wilson, Peoples of the Middle Gila: A Documentary History of the Pimas and Maricopas, 1500s – 1945, Researched and Written for the Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona, 1998 (revised July 1999) Report No. 77, Las Cruces, New Mexico, p. 137 This station was located east of Maricopa Wells Station, east of Casa Blanca Station and north of Oneida Station.

The location of the station was on the route of the Southern Emigrant Trail at the first camp on the Gila River after crossing the desert from Tucson. It was a stopping place for the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line in 1857–58 before becoming the site of a Butterfield station. Table of distances from Texas Almanac, 1859, Book, ca. 1859; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123765/ accessed November 12, 2013), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association, Denton, Texas After the Civil War, it was again used as a stage station by other stage lines.

See also Pima villages Sacate, Arizona

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