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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]
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).
Maricopa County (/ ˌ m ær ɪ ˈ k oʊ p ə /) is a county in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arizona.As of the 2020 census the population was 4,420,568, [1] or about 62% of the state's total, making it the fourth-most populous county in the United States and the most populous county in Arizona, and making Arizona one of the nation's most centralized states.
The Phoenix Metropolitan Area comprises Maricopa County (2020 population: 4,420,568) and Pinal County (2020 population: 425,264). It is officially designated by the US Census Bureau as the Phoenix–Mesa–Chandler, AZ Metropolitan Statistical Area. The total population for metropolitan Phoenix at the 2020 Census was 4,845,832. [10]
The U.S. State of Arizona currently has 13 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated two combined statistical areas, seven metropolitan statistical areas, and four micropolitan statistical areas in Arizona. [1]
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 ...
Arizona Strip: Mojave Desert: Arizona Sun Corridor: Arizona Sun Corridor: Megaregion extending from Prescott to Nogales Arizona transition zone: Mogollon Rim and White Mountains (Arizona) in east the transition zone region (diagonal across Arizona–NW-to-E-central); Colorado Plateau to northeast, lower level deserts of Basin and Range to west ...
The Phoenix Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) (officially known as the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler MSA [152]), is one of 10 MSAs in Arizona, and was the 11th largest in the United States, with a 2018 U.S. census population estimate of 4,857,962, up from the 2010 census population of 4,192,887. Consisting of both Pinal and Maricopa counties, the MSA ...