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Red Mesa black on white storage jar, 870–1000 CE, Heard Museum. The Red Mesa prehistoric pottery type was named for this Arizona area. Made from about 950 to 1050 CE, it is a subdivision of Cibola White Ware. Designs are usually banded and can be much busier than earlier types, but simple designs are also common.
The area is a part of the Red Mesa Unified School District. [10] The city is served by Red Mesa K-8 School and Red Mesa High School. Originally the territory was within the Chinle School District. In July 1983 the Red Mesa Unified School District formed, splitting from the Chinle School District. [11]
Mount McDowell (O'odham: S-wegĭ Doʼag, Yavapai: Wi:kawatha), more commonly referred to as Red Mountain, is located on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation, just north of Mesa, Arizona. It is named after General Irvin McDowell, a Union officer in the Civil War. Its elevation is 2,832 feet (863 m).
Mesa Southwest Museum (later renamed the Arizona Museum of Natural History) founded. The original Hohokam Park opens in Mesa. Bank of America Plaza (Tucson) built. Arizona Museum of Natural History is founded in Mesa, originally exhibiting in the City Hall. [212] 1978 March 9: Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza established in Phoenix. [213]
The Mesa Grande Cultural Park contains the excavated remnants of a large Hohokam public and ceremonial mound that was occupied from approximately 1100 to 1450. It is located at 1000 N. Date St. The Mesa Grande Cultural Park was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1978, reference number 78000549. [34]
Red Mesa High School is a high school in Red Mesa in an unincorporated area of Apache County, Arizona, [3] [4] near Teec Nos Pos. It is one of two high schools under the jurisdiction of the Red Mesa Unified School District, along with Red Valley/Cove High School. Little Dan, a medicine man from Sweetwater, dedicated the A, B, and C Buildings ...
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.
Mesa (/ ˈ m eɪ s ə / MAY-sə) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.The population was 504,258 at the 2020 census. [4] 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).