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The place was originally called Wi:kidoʼyoʼ in Yavapai. [2] A local legend holds that the English name came from a runaway boy with the last name of Mayer. [citation needed] From May to June 1942, 245 Japanese Americans were confined at the Mayer Assembly Center, one of 17 temporary detention camps built to hold Japanese Americans removed from the West Coast after the U.S. entered World War II.
The now defunct Pah-Ute County was split from Mohave County in 1865, but merged back in 1871. All but La Paz County were created by the time Arizona was granted statehood in 1912. La Paz County was established in 1983 after many years of pushing for independence from Yuma County. [2]
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James Cleator was a Manx who had run away to sea as a boy, arriving in America with Spanish sailors in 1889 and walking his way to gold mines in California before traveling through Mexico to Arizona by 1900. He approached Nellis in 1905 and the pair became business partners, running the town and opening a ranch together; in 1915 they split ...
Kirkland is an unincorporated community in central Yavapai County, Arizona, United States, near the Weaver Mountains. It is southwest of the city of Prescott, the county seat of Yavapai County. [3] Its elevation is 3,930 feet (1,198 m). [2] Although Kirkland is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 86332. [4]
At the 2000 census, there were 1,829 people, 700 households, and 552 families in the town.The population density was 727.3 inhabitants per square mile (280.8/km 2).There were 1,144 housing units at an average density of 454.9 per square mile (175.6/km 2).
Valle Vista is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. [4] The population was 1,802 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ]
Meadview is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, located near Lake Mead.As of the 2020 census, Meadview had 1,420 residents, [2] up from 1,224 as of 2010. [4]