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The Yuma Project is a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation project built to irrigate over 68,000 acres (280 km 2) of land in Yuma County, Arizona and parts of Imperial County, California. The project is designed to exploit year-round farming conditions and water from the Colorado River .
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After the passage of the Reclamation Act of 1902 by the US Congress, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock authorized the Yuma Project in 1904. This project was the first development of the U.S. Reclamation Service along the Lower Colorado River and featured the Laguna Diversion Dam, a pumping station and a series of canals. [1]
Yuma is a city in and the county seat [3] of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 95,548 at the 2020 census, up from the 2010 census population of 93,064. [4] Yuma is the principal city of the Yuma, Arizona, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Yuma County.
A list of mountain ranges of Yuma County, Arizona. Yuma , Arizona – Winterhaven , California is on the Colorado River in the southern section of the Lower Colorado River Valley . Adjacent notable towns at this confluence of California – Arizona, and Baja California – Sonora, are Los Algodones , Baja California, and San Luis Rio Colorado ...
There are 15 counties in the U.S. state of Arizona. [1] Four counties (Mohave, Pima, Yavapai and Yuma) were created in 1864 following the organization of the Arizona Territory in 1862. 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 ...
Laguna is a populated place situated in Yuma County, Arizona, United States. [2] It is one of two places in Arizona with this name, the other being located in Pinal County . [ 3 ] It has an estimated elevation of 1,608 feet (490 m) above sea level.