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{{Short description|US military facility}}
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{{Infobox military installation
| name          = Yuma Proving Ground
| location      = La Paz County and Yuma County, Arizona
| nearest_town  = Yuma, Arizona
| partof        = [[File:United States Army Test and Evaluation Command SSI.png|15px]] US Army Test and Evaluation Command
| image         = New ypg logo May 2024.png
| caption       = Yuma Proving Ground logo
| type          = Military proving ground
| coordinates   = {{Coord}}
{{Location map|Arizona
|label= YPG
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|lat_deg = 33.01
|lon_deg = -114.25
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| built         = 1943
| used          = 1950 – present
| ownership     = {{flag|United States}}
| controlledby  = {{flag|United States Army}}
| current_commander = [[Colonel (United States)|COL]] John Nelson <ref name="YPG Homepage">[https://home.army.mil/yuma/ YPG, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (official homepage)], army.mil, last accessed 25 June 2025</ref>
| occupants     = * [[File:US Army Garrison Yuma Proving Ground emblem.png|18px]] U.S. Army Garrison, YPG
* [[File:US Army Medical Department Activity Yuma Proving Ground DUI.png|20px]] Medical Department Activity, YPG 
* [[File:US Army YPG Yuma Test Center emblem.png|20px]] Yuma Test Center
* [[File:US Army YPG Tropic Regions Test Center emblem.png|20px]] Tropic Regions Test Center—conducted in various locations but managed out of YPG
* [[File:ARTC Logo.png|20px]] Arctic Regions Test Center—located at Fort Greely, AK but subordinate to YPG
* [[File:US Army Airborne Test Force flash.png|20px]][[File:United States Army Test and Evaluation Command DUI.png|15px]] Airborne Test Force
* [[File:US Army 2nd Special Warfare Training Group Flash.png|20px]][[File:Swcs crest.png|15px]] [[Military Freefall Parachutist Badge#Training|Military Free-Fall School]]—conducted by the [[John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School]]
* [[File:24th Special Operations Wing insignia.jpg|20px]] Special Operations [[Joint terminal attack controller|Terminal Attack Controllers]] Course—conducted by the [[24th Special Operations Wing]]
* Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment Support Laboratory
* [[File:Patch of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.svg|19px]] [[Tethered Aerostat Radar System]]—operated by [[U.S. Customs and Border Protection]]<ref name="YPG Homepage"/>
| website       = https://home.army.mil/yuma/
}}

'''Yuma [[Proving ground|Proving Ground]]''' ('''YPG''') is a [[United States Army]] series of [[environmental testing|environmentally specific test centers]] with its Yuma Test Center (YTC) being one of the largest [[military installation]]s in the world. It is subordinate to the [[United States Army Test and Evaluation Command|U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command]].

YPG's headquarters is located at its YTC in southwestern [[La Paz County, Arizona|La Paz County]] and western [[Yuma County, Arizona|Yuma County]] in southwest [[Arizona]], United States, approximately {{convert|30|mi|km|0}} north of the city of [[Yuma, Arizona|Yuma]].<ref name="Census">[https://www.census.gov|b=50|l=en|t=4001|zf=0.0|ms=sel_00dec|dw=0.007998535667255037|dh=0.0050551613624548325|dt=gov.census.aff.domain.map.EnglishMapExtent|if=gif|cx=-113.68404498617427|cy=32.93911668941063|zl=1|pz=1|bo=318:317:316:314:313:319|bl=393:358:357:356:355:354|ft=338:335:332:331|fl=372:204:369:368|g=100$10000US040120206009000&-show_geoid=Y Yuma Proving Ground census blocks, Census Tract 206, La Paz County and Census Tract 105, Yuma County, Arizona]  United States Census Bureau</ref> Facilities are located at the Colonel George W. Howard Cantonment Area (support facilities), the General [[Walton H. Walker]] Cantonment Area (headquarters facilities), and the Kofa Cantonment Area (range facilities).<ref>https://www.ypgcompatibleusestudy.com/images/docs/final/yuma_proving_ground_cus_final.pdf</ref>

Of the four extreme natural environments recognized as critical in the testing of military equipment, three fall under the management authority of YPG. Realistic natural environment testing ensures that American military equipment performs as advertised, wherever deployed around the world. YPG manages military equipment and munitions testing at three locations: The Arctic Regions Test Center at [[Fort Greely, Alaska]];<ref name="CRTC Homepage">[https://www.atec.army.mil/artc/ ARTC U.S. Army Arctic Regions Test Center], atec.army.mil, last accessed 18 September 2024</ref> the Tropic Regions Test Center operating in [[Panama]], [[Honduras]], [[Suriname]], and [[Hawaii]];<ref name="TRTC">[https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a514049.pdf Tropic Regions Test Center]; International Test and Evaluation Association; by Lance VanderZyl Director, Tropic Regions Test Center, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Yuma, Arizona; dated 2008, last accessed 27 July 2019</ref> and at YTC.<ref name="YPG Homepage"/> The common link between these test centers is "environmental testing," which makes the proving ground the Army's environmental test expert.
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==History==
The presence of the U.S. Army in Yuma goes back to 1850, when [[Fort Yuma]] was constructed on a hill overlooking the important Yuma crossing of the [[Colorado River]]. Soldiers at Fort Yuma maintained peace and protected the important [[Yuma Crossing]], which was used by thousands of travelers each year.<ref name="YPG History">[https://web.archive.org/web/20181123022517/https://www.yuma.army.mil/history.html Yuma Proving Ground Continues Area's Army History], yuma.army.mil, last accessed 22 November 2018</ref>

The Army constructed a second facility in 1865, the [[Colorado River State Historic Park|Yuma Quartermaster Depot]], to act as a supply base for Army posts throughout Arizona and parts of New Mexico. Supplies were delivered by riverboats and transported from the depot to military outposts by wagon. After Fort Yuma and the Yuma Quartermaster Depot closed in the 1880s, the Army did not return to Yuma on a permanent basis until [[World War II]].<ref name="YPG History"/>

Yuma Proving Ground traces its history to [[Camp Laguna]] and the Army Corps of Engineers Yuma Test Branch, both activated in 1943. Located on the Colorado River, the '''Yuma Test Branch''' conducted testing on [[Armoured vehicle-launched bridge|combat bridges]], [[amphibious vehicle]]s, and boats. Tens of thousands of mechanized and infantry soldiers were trained at [[Camp Laguna]] for duty at combat fronts throughout the world, from [[North Africa]] to the [[South Pacific]]. Abandoned campsites and tank trails can still be found on the proving ground.<ref name="YPG History"/>

Camp Laguna lasted only until the end of World War II. The Yuma Test Branch was closed in 1949 and reactivated two years later as the Yuma Test Station, under the operational control of the [[Sixth Army (United States)|Sixth U.S. Army]]. In 1962, the station was named Yuma Proving Ground and reassigned to the [[U.S. Army Materiel Command]] as an important component of the Test and Evaluation Command. On 26 July 1973, it officially received its full name&nbsp;– U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground. The following year it was designated as a [[Department of Defense]] Major Range and Test Facility Base.<ref name="YPG History"/>

Since its early days, Yuma Proving Ground has been a desert environmental test center for all types of military equipment and materiel. However, developmental and a variety of other types of testing of artillery systems and ammunition, aircraft armament and targeting systems, mobility equipment, and air delivery systems, not necessarily desert environmental-related, now comprise the bulk of the workload. A heavy investment in technology and a highly skilled soldier-civilian workforce makes the proving ground a significant social and economic component of the local community.<ref name="YPG History"/>

==Yuma Test Center==
{{More citations needed section|date=April 2023}}
[[File:United States Army Yuma Proving Ground Range Map.jpg|thumb|350px|YTC's primary ranges: Cibola Range, Kofa Range, and the Laguna Test Area where YPG headquarters in located]]
YTC encompasses 1,307.8 square miles (3,387.2&nbsp;km²) of the northwestern [[Sonoran Desert]]<ref name="Census"/> and conducts tests on nearly every weapon in the ground combat [[arsenal]]. Nearly all the long-range artillery testing for U.S. ground forces takes place at the YTC in an area almost completely removed from urban encroachment and noise concerns. [[Restricted airspace]] controlled by the test center amounts to over {{convert|2000|sqmi|km2|-3}}. YTC has the longest overland artillery range ({{convert|40|mi|km|disp=or}}) in the nation, the most highly instrumented [[helicopter]] armament test range in the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]], over {{convert|200|mi|km|-2}} of [[improved road]] courses for testing tracked and wheeled military vehicles, over {{convert|600|mi|km|-2}} of [[Optical fiber|fiber-optic]] cable linking test locations, and the most modern mine and [[demolition]]s test facility in the western hemisphere. Realistic villages and road networks representing urban areas in Southwest Asia have been constructed and are used for testing counter-measures to the threat of roadside bombs. It is estimated that the track can be used to test about 80 percent of the Army's [[List of currently active United States military land vehicles|wheeled vehicle fleet]].

More than 3,000 people, mostly civilians, work at YTC, which is the largest employer in Yuma County.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

In a typical year, over 500,000 artillery, [[Mortar (weapon)|mortar]] and [[missile]] rounds are fired, 36,000 [[parachute]] drops take place, {{convert|200000|mi|km}} are driven on military vehicles, and over 4,000 air sorties are flown from YTC's [[Laguna Army Airfield]].

About 10 percent of the YTC's workload is training. In a typical year, dozens of units come to the facility for realistic desert training, especially before deploying overseas.

YTC's clean air, low humidity, skimpy [[rainfall]]&nbsp;– only about {{convert|3|in|mm}} per year&nbsp;– and annual average of 350 sunny days, add up to almost perfect testing and training conditions. Urban encroachment and noise concerns are nonexistent problems, unlike at many other military installations.

YTC tests [[improvised explosive devices]], commonly known as IEDs, the number-one killer of American service men and women in [[Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]]. Hundreds of [[unmanned aerial vehicle]]s fly at the proving ground each year from the six airfields located at YTC, as do helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft conducting personnel and [[cargo]] parachute drops.

Many friendly foreign nations also visit YTC to conduct test programs.<ref name="YPG Foreign">[https://www.army.mil/article/193343/piranhas_swim_at_us_army_yuma_proving_ground Piranhas swim at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground], army.mil, by Mr. Mark Schauer (ATEC), dated 5 September 2017, last accessed 22 November 2018</ref>

The [[General Motors proving grounds|General Motors Desert Proving Ground – Yuma]] opened at YTC in late July 2009. General Motors built the facility at a cost of more than $100 million after closing its desert automotive test facility in Mesa, Arizona, that had been in operation since 1953. The new facility allows General Motors and Army automotive testers to test their wheeled vehicles all year-round.

YTC offers the following for testing, evaluation, and training purposes:
* Ground weapons systems from small arms to long range artillery
* Helicopter armament and target acquisition systems
* Artillery and [[tank]] munitions
* Cargo and personnel parachutes, including guided systems technologies
* [[Land mine]]s and mine-removal systems
* Tracked and wheeled vehicles in a desert environment
* [[Vibration]] and interference-free tests of [[Smart bomb|smart weapon]] systems
* Laguna Army Airfield complex, featuring two runways – {{convert|6000|ft|m}} and {{convert|5150|ft|m}}.
* 12 drop zones and multiple [[airstrip]]s for Unmanned Aerial Systems
* A {{convert|55|mi|km|0|adj=on}} overland artillery range, the longest in the nation
* Over {{convert|200|mi|km|-2}} of improved road courses for tracked and wheeled vehicles
* State-of-the-art [[fiber optic]]s systems to acquire, reduce and transmit data in real time
* Specialized facilities for testing countermeasures for the defeat of roadside bombs, such as the [[:File:YumaNCCITE.png|National Counterterrorism/Counterinsurgency Integrated Test and Evaluation site]]
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{{Gallery
|title=[[File:US Army YPG Yuma Test Center emblem.png|35px]] Examples of the various tests and activities conducted at YTC
|width=220
|File:M109A6 Paladin Testing at YPG.jpg|YTC's Ground Combat Systems test-fires a [[M109 howitzer#M109A6 Paladin|M109A6 self-propelled howitzer]] at a YTC artillery range.
|File:YPG water fording pit-Piranha V.jpg|A [[Royal Danish Army]] [[Mowag Piranha V|Piranha V]] [[infantry fighting vehicle]] conducts testing at YTC's [[Ford (crossing)|water fording]] pit.
|File:US Army M1126 desert mobility testing at YPG.jpg|A [[M1126 infantry carrier vehicle]] conducting desert mobility testing at YTC
|File:M1A2 Abrams ramp test at YPG.jpg|An [[M1 Abrams|M1 main battle tank]] climbs a 60° incline, part of performance testing at YTC.
|File:Explosion at US Army Yuma Proving Ground.jpg|Roadside [[improvised explosive device]] countermesture testing at YTC
|File:US Army YPG JAGM Testing with AH-64.jpg|An [[Boeing AH-64 Apache|AH-64D attack helicopter]] conducts [[AGM-179 JAGM|AGM-179 air-to-surface missile]] live-fire test on Cibola Range at YTC.
|File:YPG MSG George A Bannar Wind Tunnel.png|The [[Military Freefall Parachutist Badge#Training|Military Free-Fall School's]] [[Master sergeant#United States|MSG]] George A Bannar Wind Tunnel at YTC is the world's largest, supporting eight simultaneous jumpers.<ref>[https://www.atec.army.mil/ypg/outpost/2018/22Jan2018.pdf The Outpost, Volume 67, Number 2], Yuma Proving Ground, dated 22 January 2018, last accessed 23 June 2019</ref>
|File:NASA Orion Capsule Parachute Assembly System test at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground.jpg|[[NASA]]'s [[Orion (spacecraft)|Orion Spacecraft]] Capsule Parachute Assembly System testing at YTC
|File:U.S. Marines with the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division prepare to clear and breach a building during a mock helicopter raid at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., April 9, 2014, as part of Weapons 140409-M-HR724-049.jpg|[[United States Marines|Marines]] prepare to breach a building during a mock helicopter raid at YTC, part of [[United States Marine Corps Training and Education Command|U.S. Marine Corps Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course]].
|File:German Army tests assault rifle at US Army Yuma Proving Ground.jpg|[[German Army|German soldiers]] test new assault rifles at YTC.
|File:MQ-9B Sky Guardian testing at Laguna Army Airfield.jpg|An [[General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper|MQ-9B unmanned aerial vehicle]] used the Laguna Army Airfield at YTC to achieve a 48.2 hour endurance record and first [[Federal Aviation Administration|FAA]] certification of an unmanned aircraft to fly in civilian air space.<ref name="YPG airfield">[https://www.army.mil/article/222712/game_changing_unmanned_aircraft_tested_at_us_army_yuma_proving_ground Game-changing unmanned aircraft tested at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground], Army.mil, by Mark Schauer (ATEC), 3 June 2019, last accessed 24 July 2019</ref>
|File:OAM Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) Yuma, Arizona (15659970683).jpg|[[U.S. Customs and Border Protection]]'s [[Tethered Aerostat Radar System|tethered aerostat radar system]] at YTC
}}

==Tropic Regions Test Centers==
{{Gallery
|title=[[File:US Army YPG Tropic Regions Test Center emblem.png|35px]] Examples of testing at various Tropic Regions Test Centers (TRTCs)
|width=220
|File:US Army Stryker undergoing jungle tropical environment testing.jpg|An M1126 infantry carrier vehicle undergoes tropical environment testing at a TRTC site in Hawaii.
|File:Corrosion testing at US Army Tropic Regions Test Center.jpg|Material corrosion testing at TRTC's Breakwater Exposure Site in [[Central America]]
|File:US Joint Expeditionary Collective Protection tent testing.jpg|Joint Expeditionary Collective Protection tent testing at a TRTC site, after being tested at YTC
|File:US Army MOPP-4 testing at YPGs TRTC in Hawaii.png|Soldiers evaluate the performance of [[MOPP (protective gear)|MOPP 4]] gear at a TRTC site in Hawaii.
}}

== Arctic Regions Test Center==
{{Gallery
|title=[[File:ARTC Logo.png|35px]] Examples of various testing at the Arctic Regions Test Center (ARTC)
|width=220
|File:US Army Stryker M1128 undergoing cold weather testing.jpg|An [[M1128 mobile gun system]] undergoes cold weather live-fire testing at ARTC.
|File:US Army Small Unit Support Vehicle testing at CRTC.jpg|A small unit support vehicle undergoes testing on ARTC's Mobility Test Track.
|File:Flickr - The U.S. Army - Mobility testing.jpg|A robotic vehicle undergoes mobility testing on a bump course at ARTC.
|File:US Army Body armor testing at CRTC.jpg|Soldiers test a new modular body armor system in the extreme cold at ARTC.
}}

== Demographics ==
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'''Yuma Proving Ground''' is a [[census-designated place]] (CDP) covering the population of the Howard [[Cantonment]] at [[Yuma Proving Ground]] in [[Yuma County, Arizona|Yuma County]], [[Arizona]].<ref>{{cite gnis|2804356|Yuma Proving Ground Census Designated Place|January 3, 2023}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20231208224929/https://dema.az.gov/sites/default/files/2023-11/2023_AZPrincipalMilitaryOperationsEconImpactStudy__.pdf az.gov]</ref>

It first appeared as a CDP in the 2020 Census with a population of 313.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Yuma Proving Ground CDP, Arizona|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US0485680|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=March 13, 2022}}</ref>

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|2020= 313
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|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.html|title=Decennial Census of Population and Housing by Decades|publisher=[[US Census Bureau]]|access-date=}}</ref><br> 2020<ref name=2020CensusP2/>
}}

===2020 census===
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|+'''Yuma Proving Ground CDP, Arizona – Racial and Ethnic Composition'''<br> (''NH = Non-Hispanic'')<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity
!Pop 2020<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Yuma Proving Ground CDP, Arizona|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=1600000US0485680&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2020
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|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|171
|54.63%
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|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|20
|6.39%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|6
|1.92%
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|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|22
|7.03%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|0
|0.00%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Some Other Race]] alone (NH)
|0
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|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed Race/Multi-Racial]] (NH)
|34
|10.86%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|60
|17.17%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''313'''
|'''100.00%'''
|}

===Education===
Yuma Proving Ground is served by the [[Yuma Elementary School District]] and the [[Yuma Union High School District]]. Yuma Elementary School District operates Price Elementary School on base.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.yuma.org/our-schools | title=Our Schools &#124; Yuma Elementary School District One }}</ref>

==Climate==
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| Jan high F  =69.2
| Feb high F  =72.8
| Mar high F  =79.7
| Apr high F  =86.1
| May high F  =94.1
| Jun high F  =103.3
| Jul high F  =106.8
| Aug high F  =106.4
| Sep high F  =101.7
| Oct high F  =90.3
| Nov high F  =77.4
| Dec high F  =67.1
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| Jan mean F  =56.9
| Feb mean F  =60.3
| Mar mean F  =66.4
| Apr mean F  =72.3
| May mean F  =80.0
| Jun mean F  =88.6
| Jul mean F  =94.3
| Aug mean F  =94.4
| Sep mean F  =88.8
| Oct mean F  =76.7
| Nov mean F  =64.2
| Dec mean F  =55.1
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| Jan low F  =44.7
| Feb low F  =47.8
| Mar low F  =53.1
| Apr low F  =58.5
| May low F  =65.8
| Jun low F  =73.8
| Jul low F  =81.8
| Aug low F  =82.4
| Sep low F  =76.0
| Oct low F  =63.1
| Nov low F  =51.0
| Dec low F  =43.2
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| Feb precipitation inch  =0.53
| Mar precipitation inch  =0.41
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==References==
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==External links==
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