Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An enlargeable map of the United States after the annexation of northwestern Arizona on January 18, 1867. An enlargeable map of the United States after the admission of Arizona to the Union on February 14, 1912. An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since Hawaiiʻi was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959.
Last passenger service 1953. Still standing. Was served by Arizona Eastern Railway's Copper Spike excursion motorcar in 2006. Grand Canyon: GCRX: 1904: Built by Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railroad. Last Santa Fe passenger service July 1968. Restored by National Park Service, 1987. Excursion service began September 1989 by Grand Canyon Railway ...
In 1853, President Franklin Pierce sent James Gadsden to Mexico City to negotiate with Santa Anna, and the United States bought the remaining southern strip area of Arizona and New Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase. A treaty was signed in Mexico in December 1853, and then, with modifications, approved by the US Senate in June 1854, setting the ...
The boundaries for the original territory, if they had kept their same size, would have made present-day Las Vegas part of Arizona. In 1867, though, Congress transferred the Arizona Territory's northwestern corner, specifically most of its land west of the Colorado River, to the state of Nevada. [10] This reduced the territory to its current area.
Del Webb's Sun City opens. [166] 1961 Deer Valley is annexed by Phoenix. [166] The town of Paradise Valley is incorporated. [183] Chris-Town Mall, the first air-conditioned indoor mall in Phoenix, opens. [166] KAET-TV begins operations as a NET affiliate in Phoenix. [166] 1962 Phoenix Zoo opens. Phoenix City Square built.
This is a directory of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona. There are 1,491 listed sites in the state, and each of its fifteen counties has at least ten listings on the National Register. Forty-seven of the state's sites are further designated as National Historic Landmarks.
Sun City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, that is located within the Phoenix metropolitan area. The population was 39,931 as of the 2020 census. [3] Its adjoining sister city is Sun City West. Both Sun Cities are retirement communities popular with snowbirds.
Map of the Arizona Sun Corridor, showing each county in the Sun Corridor, as well as their cities, towns, and CDPs. The largest community in each county is highlighted in red. The Arizona Sun Corridor lies in the American Southwest, about halfway between the Southern California and Front Range Megaregions. It is shown on the map in deep blue.