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Carefree is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is a suburb of both Phoenix and Scottsdale , located in the far northeast area of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area . As of the 2020 United States census , the population of the town was 3,690.
Arizona State Route 74 (SR 74), locally known as the Carefree Highway, is a state highway in central Arizona that stretches east to west from its junction with U.S. Route 60 (US 60) just south of Wickenburg to its junction with Interstate 17 (I-17) in North Phoenix.
While Carefree and Cave Creek are today a home for upper-income retirees and an enclave for artists and entrepreneurs, the first inhabitants of the area surrounding Black Mountain were Native Americans known as the Hohokam, who appeared about 750 A.D. They were an agrarian society of hunters and gatherers who also used irrigation to maintain crops.
Carefree Highway extends east through Interstate 17 (I-17), which is the eastern terminus of SR 74, to Scottsdale Road on the border of Scottsdale and Carefree. The entire length of Carefree Highway is part of the National Highway System as a principal arterial. Carefree Highway is the inspiration for Gordon Lightfoot's eponymous song.
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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, excluding Phoenix. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
At the Carefree Highway (former SR 74), the parkway resumes its original route as a four lane undivided road providing access to Tramonto Marketplace, a local shopping center. Soon after, the road jogs west and closely parallels the Black Canyon Highway (I-17) , providing a connection to the interstate highway via Pioneer Road and exit 225. [ 2 ]
The prehistoric Hohokam built villages and defensive fortifications. The Sears-Kay Ruin is one of the many forts built by the Hohokam. The ruins of this fort is located atop a desert foothill in the Tonto National Forest on the outskirts of the town of Carefree. The fort was built around 1050 AD and abandoned around 1200 AD.