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KVRD-FM (105.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. It is licensed to Cottonwood, Arizona , United States. Yavapai Broadcasting Corporation currently owns the station and features programming from CNN Radio and Westwood One .
KKLD airs a classic hits music format syndicated by ABC Radio Network. In addition to its usual music programming, through the months of September to December, the station broadcasts the high school football games of the Bradshaw Bears of Bradshaw Mountain High School in Prescott Valley, Arizona. The games are commentated by Matt Showalter.
Main Street in Cottonwood was created 1908, when two settlers "used a mule team to pull and drag through brush". [5] In 1917, Clemenceau, a mining town that is now part of Cottonwood, was established nearby. [5] The Clemenceau smelter closed in 1936, causing job loses and a disruption to the area. [5] Cottonwood incorporated in 1960. [6]
Planet is a populated place on the north bank of the Bill Williams River [1] in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. The town was known as a travelers' stopping place, and had a post office from 1902 to 1921. [2] It is now a ghost town. [3] It is part of the United States Bureau of Reclamation's Planet Ranch Conservation Area.
Cottonwood is located about 21 miles (34 km) west of Chinle and 22 miles (35 km) east of Pinon. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.14 square miles (0.37 km 2), all land. [3]
Originally named Verde, the town was renamed Clemenceau in 1920, both to honor Georges Clemenceau and to avoid possible confusion with nearby Camp Verde.Though now a part of the city of Cottonwood, Verde as it was known had its own post office and station on the Clarkdale branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. [3] "
The Bank of Arizona building is located at 816 N. Main Street Cottonwood, AZ 86326. Opened Jan 25, 1954 as the "most modern" in the state with drive-in teller and complete Air Conditioning. It housed the City of Cottonwood police department until a consolidated police, fire, EMS presence was constructed on 6th Street in the 1990s.
Alvie Self was born in Cottonwood, Arizona [2] and grew up in the Verde Valley, singing country and gospel music. [1] He played accordion before taking up the guitar. [2] "I loved Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. I noticed the way people danced and reacted to it, and got this idea to go wild and dance to rock n’ roll."