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Gila Bend Overpass – The overpass was built in 1933–34. It is located on the Business Route 8 over the Southern Pacific railroad line. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966, reference# 88001607. The Gila Bend Steam Locomotive Water Stop – was built in 1900 and is located near Murphy Street.
Cochise County – named after the eponymous Chiricahua chief, from k'uu-ch'ish, meaning "oak". [2] Coconino County – named after the extinct Coconino tribe, of which the Havasupai are descended from. [3] Gila County – from the Yuma phrase hah-quah-sa-eel, meaning "salty running water". [4] Shared with the city of Gila Bend, and the Gila River.
However, when Gila River Telecommunications was founded in 1989, a television station was planned but found to be cost-prohibitive. [1] Its official launch occurred on April 6, 2015. Programming includes public service announcements and tribal content and local and pre-produced live content related to the community.
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The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) (O'odham language: Keli Akimel Oʼotham, meaning "Gila River People", Maricopa language: Pee-Posh) is an Indian reservation in the U.S. state of Arizona, lying adjacent to the south side of the cities of Chandler and Phoenix, within the Phoenix Metropolitan Area in Pinal and Maricopa counties.
Two people are in police custody after a shooting left a rookie police officer and a bystander dead during a dance at the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona, early Saturday, authorities said.
Flood waters impounded by the dam periodically inundated approximately 10,000 acres (40 km 2) of the Gila Bend Reservation. [3] The area lost by the tribe contained a 750-acre (3.0 km 2) farm and several communities. Residents were relocated to a 40-acre (160,000 m 2) parcel of land named San Lucy Village, near Gila Bend, Arizona. [4]
Gila monsters are venomous reptiles that naturally inhabit parts of the southwestern U.S. and neighboring areas of Mexico. Their bites can cause intense pain and make their victims pass out but ...