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Butte County: In 1897, James C. Goodwin, with the support of Charles T. Hayden and others, introduced a bill at the Territorial Legislature to split Maricopa County into two, with Tempe being the county seat. [13] [14] There have also been proposals, introduced in 1900 and 1913, to divide Maricopa County, with Mesa as the new county's seat. [14]
Pima County Fair, 2007. Pima County (/ ˈ p iː m ə / PEE-mə) is a county in the south central region of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,043,433, [1] making it Arizona's second-most populous county. The county seat is Tucson, [2] where most of the population is centered.
Tucson (/ ˈ t uː s ɒ n /; O'odham: Cuk Ṣon; Spanish: Tucsón) [1] is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, [8] and is home to the University of Arizona. It is the second-largest city in Arizona behind Phoenix , with a population of 542,629 in the 2020 United States census , [ 9 ] while the population of the ...
Mesa (/ ˈ m eɪ s ə / MAY-sə) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.It is the third-most populous city in Arizona, after Phoenix and Tucson, the 36th-most populous city in the U.S., and the most populous city that is not a county seat (except for independent cities Washington, D.C. and Baltimore which are not part of any county).
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]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Significant distances requiring transportation in Southern Arizona are generally traveled by highway and the railroad. Southern Arizona is the location of the major transcontinental Interstate highway Interstate 10 from the border with New Mexico westward through Tucson, and then continuing northwest via Casa Grande to the Phoenix–Scottsdale–Mesa metropolis.
Black Mountain is a lava capped mesa in Pima County, Arizona, that rises 1,000 feet above its base to an altitude of 3,700 feet (1,128 m).It is a northeast trending ridge, 5,600 feet in length, located along Mission Road nine miles southwest of Tucson.