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Green Valley is twenty miles (32 km) south of Tucson and 40 miles (64 km) north of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. Surrounded by copper mines, and near the cycling, hiking and birding areas of the Santa Rita Mountains, Green Valley is an unincorporated retirement community composed of 59 Homeowner Associations.
Arizona's 6th congressional district is a congressional district located in the U.S. state of Arizona and encompasses all of Greenlee County, most of Cochise County, and parts of Pima County, Pinal County and Graham County. Most of its population resides in suburbs of Tucson, including Catalina Foothills, Oro Valley, Marana, Green Valley, and Vail.
According to a 2007 report by Pima County, 76,000 acre-feet (94,000,000 m 3) of water was pumped from the aquifer in the Upper Santa Cruz Valley in 2006 [in the report referred to as the Green Valley area, which includes Sahuarita], with 85 percent of that water being used for mining and agriculture. The remaining 15 percent was split between ...
Pima County, one of the four original counties in Arizona, was created by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature with land acquired through the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico in 1853. The original county consisted of all of Arizona Territory east of longitude 113° 20' and south of the Gila River . [ 3 ]
The mine is located in southern Pima County, southwest of Tucson and west of Green Valley-Sahuarita. Originally developed as an underground mine in 1907, the Sierrita open pit has been in operation since 1959 and is a copper and molybdenum mining complex, operating on a porphyry copper deposit with oxide, secondary sulfide, and primary sulfide ...
Helvetia is a ghost town in Pima County, Arizona, United States that was settled in 1891 and abandoned in the early 1920s. Helvetia is an ancient name for Switzerland . [ 2 ] Today, only the Ray Mine and cemetery are visitable, as the rest of the town has been fenced off due to active mining operations.
Green Valley News & Sun – Green Valley; The Independent Newspapers – Apache Junction/Gold Canyon, Queen Creek San Tan Valley, East Mesa, Scottsdale, Town of Paradise Valley, Peoria, Sun City/Youngtown, Sun City West, and Surprise, Arizona [4] InMaricopa – Maricopa; Inside Tucson Business – Tucson; Jewish News of Greater Phoenix – Phoenix
Continental is a populated place located about 25 mi (40 km) south of Tucson, in Pima County, Arizona, United States, near the town of Sahuarita and the retirement community of Green Valley. Once a center for cotton production, Continental is now nearly surrounded by large pecan orchards and Green Valley subdivisions.