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Elgin is the first location in Arizona to engage in commercial scale winemaking. In the 1970s, Gordon Dutt, Ph.D., a soil scientist from the University of Arizona, was intrigued with the similarity between the soil of the Elgin-Sonoita area and that of Burgundy, France. In partnership with A. Blake Brophy, he developed an experimental winery ...
The following is a list of the mountains and hills of Arizona, ordered by height. Entries in bold indicate the peak is the highest point in its respective county . Entries with a † indicate the peak has a low topographic prominence and may be considered a subpeak to a higher nearby summit.
The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first table below ranks the 20 highest major summits of Arizona by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
A county formation commission is required to be formed to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed county. [5] A proposal to divide a county must be approved by a majority of the votes cast in each proposed new county. [6] Under the Arizona Constitution, counties are politically and legally creatures of the state, and do not have charters of ...
The Huachuca Mountains were named by the Spanish for a Pima village that once existed to the north of the range near the present location of Elgin, Arizona. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Coronado National Memorial is in the southeastern margin of the range near the Mexico–United States border and includes Montezuma Pass , a possible entry point of Francisco ...
The county seat of Maricopa County is Phoenix, which is Arizona's largest city and capital. The next most populous county is Pima County, which had a 2010 census population of 980,263. The county seat of Pima County is Tucson, where nearly all of the population is concentrated. Combined, nearly 80% of Arizona residents live in either Maricopa ...
The 2010 Census defines 360 census-designated places or CDPs within the state of Arizona, with a combined population of 894,461 accounting for 14% of the state population. CDPs are defined as populated areas that are not organized into incorporated communities.
Sonoita (/ s ə ˈ n ɔɪ. t ə /; O'odham: Ṣon ʼOidag) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States. [1] The population was 803 at the 2020 census. [3] The origin of the name of the CDP is the O'odham Ṣon ʼOidag, which may be best translated as "spring field". [citation needed]