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Pre-Columbian before 1539; Territorial 1853-1912; ... countless ancient ruins can be found in Arizona. ... Arizona has fully vaccinated 4,809,730 people, equivalent ...
Hinchcliffe Court opens near Tucson, the first auto court motel in Arizona. [111] 1912 February 14: Arizona becomes the 48th state of the United States; Phoenix becomes the state capital. [105] May 17: Chandler is founded by Alexander Chandler, from the breakup of his ranch. [53] [85] [112] May 21: The Chandler Arizonan begins publication. [113]
The Territory of Arizona creates Maricopa County from portions of Pima County and Yavapai County. [4] 1870: April 1: The 1870 United States Census enumerates the population of the Territory of Arizona, later determined to be 9,658. Arizona becomes the eighth most populous of the nine U.S. territories.
Twenty Arizona municipalities were incorporated before 1912, when the state was admitted to the Union. As such, these cities and towns were incorporated by means other than those stipulated by current state law and the constitution. Phoenix, for example, was incorporated in 1881 by an act of the Territorial Legislature. [16]
The Arizona Territory passes a law allowing cities, including Phoenix, to annex land surrounding the city, as long as it obtained the permission of the inhabitants of that area. 1894 Orangedale (later called Scottsdale) is founded by Winfield Scott. [10] The city passes an ordinance limiting prostitution to a single block area. [10]
Bird on fire: Lessons from the world's least sustainable city (Oxford UP, 2011). Schweikart, Larry. "Collusion or Competition?: Another Look at Banking During Arizona's Boom Years, 1950–1965." Journal of Arizona History (1987): 189–200. Zarbin, Earl A. All the Time a Newspaper: The First 100 Years of the Arizona Republic (1990)
The U.S. territory of Arizona became a U.S. state on February 14, 1912. ... People from pre-statehood Arizona (4 C, 7 P) A. Archaeological sites in Arizona ...
The Territory of Arizona, commonly known as the Arizona Territory, was a territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863, [1] until February 14, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Arizona.