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Papago Park is a hilly desert park covering 1200 acres in its Phoenix extent and 296 acres in its Tempe extent. Tempe refers to its section of the park specifically as Tempe Papago Park. Papago Park is notable for its many distinctive geological formations and its wide variety of typical desert plants, including the giant saguaro cactus.
Camp Papago Park was a prisoner of war (POW) facility located in Papago Park in the eastern part of Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It consisted of five compounds, four for enlisted men and one for officers .
[1] [2] Formerly, it was also home to the World War II POW Camp Papago Park that is adjacent to Papago Park. The Reservation was established on April 21, 1930 by the 71st Congress. [3] On Halloween of 2014, a crew from the 2nd Battalion, 285th Aviation Regiment, stationed at Papago Army Heliport, dropped candy on a local Phoenix neighborhood. [4]
Ramada opened its first hotel, a 60-room facility, on U.S. Route 66 at Flagstaff, Arizona in 1954 and set up its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, where the chain built the Sahara Hotel on North 1st Street downtown in 1956 (which later became the Ramada Inn Downtown) and a 300-room Ramada Inn in the 3800 block of East Van Buren in 1958 that ...
The Tohono Oʼodham Nation [2] is the collective government body of the Tohono Oʼodham tribe in the United States. [2] The Tohono Oʼodham Nation governs four separate sections of land with a combined area of 2.8 million acres (11,330 km 2), approximately the size of Connecticut and the second-largest Indigenous land holding in the United States.
Prior to 1974 the Scottsdale Unified School District accepted students from the reservation. In 1965 400 students attended the Mesa school district facilities. In 1974 the Scottsdale district began rejecting residents of the reservation. In 2000, a total of 1,120 students from the reservation attended Mesa schools. [12]
Papago Army Heliport (FAA LID: P18) is a United States Army heliport at Papago Park Military Reservation. It is home to the 2nd Battalion, 285th Aviation Regiment . The airport is 6 miles (5.2 nmi ; 9.7 km ) east of the central business district of Phoenix , a city in Maricopa County, Arizona , United States .
The land area is 97.48 percent of the reservation's total, and the population is 77.65 percent of the total of the entire reservation lands. The San Xavier Reservation , at 32°03′00″N 111°05′02″W / 32.05000°N 111.08389°W / 32.05000; -111.08389 , is located in Pima County, in the southwestern part of the Tucson metropolitan