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The Gila River Valley is a multi-sectioned valley of the Gila River, located primarily in Arizona. The Gila River forms in western New Mexico and flows west across southeastern, south-central, and southwestern Arizona; it changes directions as it progresses across the state, and defines specific areas and valleys.
Overdraft from the Gila River system prompted the construction of the Central Arizona Project, which delivers some 1,500,000 acre-feet (1.9 km 3) annually from the Colorado River to supplement water supplies in the basin. [17] The upper Gila River, including its entire length within New Mexico, is a free-flowing one.
The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) (O'odham language: Keli Akimel Oʼotham, meaning "Gila River People", Maricopa language: Pee-Posh) is an Indian reservation in the U.S. state of Arizona, lying adjacent to the south side of the cities of Chandler and Phoenix, within the Phoenix Metropolitan Area in Pinal and Maricopa counties. The Gila ...
Gila County (/ ˈ h iː l ə / HEE-lə) is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 53,272. [1] The county seat is Globe. [2] Gila County comprises the Payson, Arizona micropolitan statistical area which is included in the greater Phoenix–Mesa, AZ combined statistical area.
Globe is in southern Gila County at (33.399858, −110.781570), [6] in the valley of Pinal Creek, a north-flowing tributary of the Salt U.S. Route 60 passes through the city, leading northeast through the Fort Apache Indian Reservation 87 miles (140 km) to Show Low, and west 87 miles (140 km) to Phoenix.
The Gila and Salt River Meridian intersects the initial point [clarification needed] on the south side of the Gila River, opposite the mouth of Salt River, at latitude 33° 22′ 37.82733″ north, longitude 112° 18′ 21.99931″ west from Greenwich based on NAD 83, and governs the surveys in the territory of Arizona.
Sacate is a populated place in the Middle Gila River Valley area, within Pinal County, Arizona, United States. [2] Located 8 mi (13 km) north of Maricopa on the south side of the Gila River near Pima Butte, Sacate was an Pima village, a railroad station of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and a Catholic mission.
Location of Gila County in Arizona. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Gila County, Arizona. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Gila County, Arizona, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts ...