Apache Junction Apache Junction is located at the junction of US 60 (Superstition Freeway), US 89, and State Highway 88 (historically known as the Apache Trail). It is approximately 35 miles east of Phoenix and straddles both the Pinal and Maricopa county lines at the base of the Superstition Mountains.
Arlington
located about 40 miles west of Phoenix. Population was 470 in the 2000 census but is over 600 in 2008.
Avondale Avondale is located approximately 15 miles west of downtown Phoenix with the city of Tolleson on the east, the city of Litchfield Park on the north, the city of Goodyear on the west and the Sierra Estrella Mountains to the south.
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Buckeye Buckeye is located approximately 30 miles west of downtown Phoenix and covers nearly 600 square miles, stretching north to the town of Wickenburg, south to the town of Gila Bend, east to the Hassayampa River, and west to Perryville Road. It is on the southwestern edge of Maricopa County and has a majestic view of the White Tank Mountains from almost every vantage point.
Falfa
Was a hay-loading station on the railroad and was located south of what is now West Elliot Road between North Arizona Avenue and South McQueen Road.
Its name was a contraction of alfalfa, which was widely grown around those parts.
Arizona Place Names, by Will Banes.
Fort McDowell In 1865, the army sent a small force of 300 volunteers from California to establish Fort McDowell. Fort McDowell was located 18 miles east of Cave Creek. One year after the Californians arrived, a regular army infantry unit settled into Fort McDowell. For 15 more years, skirmishes, ambushes, and bloody confrontations raged between the soldiers and the Tonto Apaches.
Fountain Hills
Fountain Hills owes its origin to a lake that never came to be. As part of the Central Arizona Project, construction of Orme Dam, near Granite Reef Dam, would have created a lake at the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation. Robert P. McCULLOCH envisioned a community of 70,000 people similar to one of McCulloch Properties’ other master-planned communities - Lake Havasu City.
The lake would have flooded the homes of Fort McDowell residents. The Yavapai and environmentalists defeated the dam proposal, but the town of Fountain Hills had begun. The development was marketed with a “fly-before-you-buy” sales program, beginning in 1972. Prospective buyers were flown in from Midwestern and Eastern cities to tour the desert ridges in white Jeeps and select their properties.
The 560-foot-high “World’s Highest Fountain” was the concept of C.V. WOOD, Jr., a planner for McCulloch Properties, Inc., who had worked with Walt Disney on designing Disneyland. It was built to attract attention and buyers. It was turned on for the first time on December 15, 1970, the “birthday” of Fountain Hills. Today, the population is around 24,000, with build-out expected at around 35,000 residents.
Gilbert The town of Gilbert is sandwiched between the city of Chandler and the city of Mesa. It is six miles southeast of Mesa and 22 miles southeast of downtown Phoenix.
Glendale Glendale is one of Arizona's largest cities. It is located 9 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix and covers 52 square miles.
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Guadalupe Incorporated in 1975, Guadalupe is sandwiched between the cities of Tempe and Phoenix and has a population of about 5,000 residents. Guadalupe is rich in Hispanic and Yaqui Indian culture.
Kaka
Kaka is a small town in the far southeastern corner of Maricopa County, about 115 miles from Phoenix. It is on one of the non-contiguous sections of the Tohono O'odham Reservation.
According to Arizona's Names: X Marks the Spot, by Byrd Howell Granger, Father Kino visited the village in 1698 and called it El Gaga.
Ka is a Pima word meaning "a clearing for a field." Kaka is the plural.
Lehi
Lehi is a thriving settlement in bottom lands along the Salt River three miles northeast of Mesa. First known as Camp Utah, or Utahville, for years it was called Jonesville, but finally the post office name of Lehi was attached.
Litchfield Park The city is very small compared to most in the Valley of the Sun, covering only about three square miles.
→ Cemetery transcription Litchfield Park Cemetery
Mesa The city of Mesa is sandwiched between several city and towns in the East Valley. The City of Tempe is to its west, both the city of Chandler and the town of Gilbert are to the south, the Salt River Indian Community is to the north, and the city of Apache Junction is to the northeast. It is approximately 12 miles southeast of downtown Phoenix.
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Mesa City Cemetery
Peoria Peoria is one of the largest cities in Arizona both in land area and population. The town is located 15 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix in the West Valley. It covers 117 square miles.
Queen Creek Queen Creek was incorporated in 1989 and is in the far southeast corner of Maricopa County. In fact, part of the corporate town limits actually fall inside of Pinal County.
Sun City Established and built by the Del Webb Corp. in 1960, it is the largest retirement community in this or any other nation. The community is age-restricted with the requirement that one resident must be at least 55 years of age and no permanent resident under the age of 19.
Sun Lakes For about six months every year, a large population of winter visitors resides in unincorporated east Mesa as well as the master-planned community of Sun Lakes south of Chandler.
Tempe The first settlers to move to the Tempe area, south of the Salt River and east of Phoenix, were Hispanic families from southern Arizona. In 1872, some of these Mexican settlers founded a town called San Pablo east of Tempe Butte.
Another settlement, known as Hayden's Ferry, developed west of Tempe Butte.
Both settlements grew quickly and soon formed one community. The town was named Tempe in 1879 by "Lord" Darrell Duppa who said the sight of the butte, the wide river and the nearby expanse of green fields, reminded him of the Vale of Tempe in ancient Greece.
→ Online Double Butte Cemetery
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