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The lake's design capacity was 24,500 acre-feet (30,200,000 m 3) of water, with a surface area of over 2 square miles (5.2 km 2). Over the years, siltation and vegetation have reduced the capacity and surface area, so that much of the reservoir is a shallow marsh with extensive stands of cattails and rushes.
Arizona's oldest rocks overall are metamorphosed volcanic rocks, including basalt and rhyolite and related sedimentary rocks, that now constitute the bottom of the Grand Canyon and formed beginning 1.8 billion years ago. The Verde district at Jerome, in Yavapai County also preserves rocks from this period.
Pinal County was carved out of neighboring Maricopa County and Pima County on February 1, 1875, during the Eighth Legislature. In the August 18, 1899, issue of The Arizona Magazine, the name "Pinal" is said to come from the pine-clad Pinal Mountains. [3] Pinal County was the second-fastest-growing county in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010. [4]
Mark Wilmer Pumping Plant. The CAP delivers Colorado River water, either directly or by exchange, into central and Southern Arizona.The project was envisioned to provide water to nearly one million acres (405,000 hectares) of irrigated agricultural land areas in Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima counties, as well as municipal water for several Arizona communities, including the metropolitan areas of ...
Bodies of water of Mohave County, Arizona (2 C, 2 P) N. ... Bodies of water of Pinal County, Arizona (2 C) S. Bodies of water of Santa Cruz County, Arizona (2 C) Y.
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The History of Arizona: To the Earliest Time Known to the People of Europe to 1903. San Francisco: The Whittaker & Ray Company, 1905. [32] This source gives a general overview of the various settlements found throughout the Gila Valley. The book also mentions the effects the Mormon settlers had on the economy and population of the county.