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Map of the United States with Arizona highlighted. Arizona is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States census, Arizona is the 14th most populous state with 7,151,502 inhabitants (as of the 2020 census) [1] and the 6th largest by land area spanning 113,623.1 square miles (294,282 km 2). [2]
In February 1903, U.S. Senator Hamilton Kean spoke against Arizona's statehood. He said Mormons who fled from Idaho to Mexico would return to the U.S. and mix in the politics of Arizona. [44] In 1912, Arizona almost entered the Union as part of New Mexico in a Republican plan to keep control of the U.S. Senate. The plan, while accepted by most ...
AT&SF's subsidiary, the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad constructs line from Albuquerque to California. The line passes through Flagstaff, and many towns in northern Arizona take their names from men working on the line: Kingman, Holbrook, Drake and Winslow. [37] 1882 March 20: Wyatt Earp kills Frank Stilwell in Tucson. Kingman founded.
Arizona [b] is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.It also borders Nevada to the northwest and California to the west, and shares an international border with the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest.
An enlargeable map of the United States after the admission of Arizona to the Union on February 14, 1912. An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since Hawaiiʻi was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959. The following timeline traces the territorial evolution of the U.S. State of Arizona.
October 20: Town site selected in what is currently downtown Phoenix. [8] [11] Town laid out, [12] [13] original town site consists of 320 acres, or 0.5 square miles. [8] [14] Population of the Salt River Valley reaches 240, the Arizona Territory has 9,658 people. [10] 1700 acres under cultivation in the Salt River Valley. [10] Maricopa Canal ...
This was the homestead house of "Lord" Darrell Duppa, an Englishman who is credited with naming the towns of "Phoenix" and "Tempe" and who is the founding of the town of New River, Arizona. The Board of Supervisors in Yavapai County, which at the time encompassed Phoenix, officially recognized the new town on May 4, 1868, and formed an election ...
The town was still known as Antelope Spring in 1871. [5] [4] [6] After the town took the name Flagstaff, it began to be known as 'Old Town' [a] for a period, and was known by different names when the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was being built through the area in 1882.