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  2. Gila Bend, Arizona - Wikipedia

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    Gila Bend (/ ˌ h iː l ə ˈ b ɛ n d /; O'odham: Hila Wi:n), founded in 1872, is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The town is named for an approximately 90-degree bend in the Gila River , which is near the community's current location. [ 4 ]

  3. Gila Bend Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The famous Gila Bend of the river changes the west-southwest flow to south-flowing, then back to west-flowing. Painted Rock Reservoir and the Dendora Valley are nestled at the south of the Gila Bend Mountains, the monolith which causes the diversion of the Gila Bend. Gila Bend, Arizona is located at the southeast of the bend, on Interstate 8.

  4. Gila River - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Gatlin Site - Wikipedia

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    The Gatlin Site is an archaeological site in Gila Bend, Arizona. The site preserves one of the few documented Hohokam platform mounds. Associated with the mound are pit houses, ball courts, middens, and prehistoric canals. Between AD 800 and 1200 it was an important Hohokam settlement at the great bend of the Gila River.

  6. Gila River Indian Community - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Gila Bend Indian Reservation - Wikipedia

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    In 1960, the Army Corps of Engineers completed construction of the Painted Rock Dam on the Gila River. Flood waters impounded by the dam periodically inundated approximately 10,000 acres (40 km 2) of the Gila Bend Reservation. [3] The area lost by the tribe contained a 750-acre (3.0 km 2) farm and several communities.

  8. Painted Rock Petroglyph Site - Wikipedia

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    The annual rainfall is only about six inches and the nearest irrigational water is the Gila River. In prehistoric times the Gila flowed west out of the mountains of western New Mexico, made a big dogleg turn at the town of Gila Bend and continued west to empty into the Colorado River. The Hohokam people once lived and farmed here. Ruins of ...

  9. Ajo, Arizona - Wikipedia

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    The Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad was built from Gila Bend to serve the mining industry and was in service from 1916 to 1985. In 1921, Phelps Dodge , the nation's largest copper company, bought New Cornelia and the mine became the New Cornelia Branch of Phelps Dodge, managed by Michael Curley.