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Quartzsite is a town in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2020 census, the population was 2,413. [3] Interstate 10 runs directly through Quartzsite which is at the intersection of U.S. Route 95 and Arizona State Route 95 with I-10.
This is a list of the time offsets by U.S. states, federal district, and territories. For more about the time zones of the U.S. see time in the United States. Most states are entirely contained within one time zone. However, some states are in two time zones, due to geographical, socio-political or economic reasons.
The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2025a of the tz database. [2]
Standard time in the contiguous United States, illustration 1903. From east to west, the four time zones of the contiguous United States are: Eastern Time Zone (Zone R), which comprises roughly the states on the Atlantic coast and the eastern two thirds of the Ohio Valley.
Time in Arizona, as in all U.S. states, is regulated by the United States Department of Transportation [1] as well as by state and tribal law. All of Arizona is in the Mountain Time Zone . [ 2 ] Since 1968, most of the state—except the Navajo Nation —does not observe daylight saving time and remains on Mountain Standard Time (MST) all year.
Fort Tyson was a privately owned fort built in 1856 by Charles Tyson in the area which is now called Quartzsite, Arizona.He built the fort to protect the local miners and water supply from the raids of the Yavapai (Mohave-Apache), a Native-American tribe.
La Paz County was established in 1983 after voters approved separating the northern portion of Yuma County, making it the only county to be established after Arizona became a state in 1912, and currently the second youngest county in the United States (behind the consolidated city-county of Broomfield, Colorado, which was established in 2001).
The military time zone system ensures clear communication in a concise manner, and avoids confusion when coordinating across time zones. The CCEB , representing the armed forces of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, publishes the military time zone system as the ACP 121 standard. [ 1 ]