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The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members as of 2021, the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four Corners region and covers more than 27,325 square miles of land in Ar...
Wikipedia Designed to capture contributors and participants in America's expansion westward from the east coast. Including politicians, newsmen, explorers, founding fathers, frontiersmen, mountainmen, railroadmen, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, etc. Notable people of the American Old West Artists Frederic Remington - Artist who specialized in the American Old West Explorers Saca...
This project is part of the State of Arizona Portal. = This project is for those from Alabama and/or their respective Counties. This project is for those from the state of Arizona . There are 15 counties in the U.S. state of Arizona. Four counties (Mohave, Pima, Yavapai and Yuma) were created in 1864 following the organization of the Arizona Territory in 1862. The now defunct Pah-Ute...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Maricopa County, Arizona. Official Website Founded on February 14, 1871, Maricopa County was named after the Maricopa Indians. Adjacent Counties La Paz County Yavapai County Yuma County Gila County Pinal County Pima County Cities Avondale Buckeye Chandler
Luke Air Force Base (IATA: LUF, ICAO: KLUF, FAA LID: LUF) is a United States Air Force base in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is located 7 miles west of the central business district of Glendale, and 15 miles west of Phoenix. Luke AFB is a major training base of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC), training pilots in the F-16 Fighting Falcon. On 31 March 2011, the F-35 L...
From the Wikipedia Article on Arizona State University .Arizona State University (commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State) is a public flagship metropolitan research university located on five campuses across the Phoenix, Arizona, Metropolitan Area. A sixth campus located in northwestern Arizona is known as the ASU Colleges at Lake Havasu City. ASU is the largest public university by enrol...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Navajo County, Arizona. Official Website Navajo County was created on March 21, 1895. It was the location for many of the events of the Pleasant Valley War. The Pleasant Valley War, sometimes called the Tonto Basin Feud, or Tonto Basin War, or Tewksbury-Graham Feud, was a range war fought in Pleasant Valley, Arizona in the years 188...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tucson, Arizona. Official Website Tucson is the county seat of Pima County. It is also known as "The Old Pueblo". Tucson was founded as a military fort by the Spanish when Hugo O'Conor authorized the construction of Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón in 1775. It was included in the state of Sonora after Mexico gained independence from...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pima County, Arizona. Official Website 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 county is named after the Pima Native Americans who are indigenous to this area. Adjacent Counties Maric...
The Hopi are a Native American ethnic group who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona, United States. As of the 2010 census, there are 19,338 Hopi in the country. The Hopi Tribe is a sovereign nation within the United States and has government-to-government relations with the United States federal government. Particular villages retain autonomy under the Hopi Constituti...
Wikipedia =National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona.23029 North Cave Creek Road Phoenix, AZ 85024 Phone: 480-513-3600 FAX: 480-513-1412 Burial status - Open Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Yuma County, Arizona. Official Website Yuma County was one of four original Arizona counties created by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature.[4] The county territory was defined as being west of longitude 113° 20' and south of the Bill Williams River. Adjacent Counties La Paz County Maricopa County Pima County Sonora, M...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Yavapai County, Arizona. Official Website Yavapai County was one of the four original Arizona counties created by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature. The county territory was defined as being east of longitude 113° 20' and north of the Gila River. The county is named after the Yavapai people, who were the principal inhabitants ...
This project is for those buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Kingman, Mohave County, Arizona. Find a Grave Billion Graves Arizona Gravestones
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Official Website Santa Cruz County, formed on March 15, 1899 and is named after the Santa Cruz River. The river originates in the Canelo Hills in the eastern portion of the county, crosses south into Mexico near the community of Santa Cruz, Sonora and then bends northwards returning into the United States...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pinal County, Arizona. Official Website The county was founded in 1875 and the name "Pinal" is said to come from the pine-clad Pinal Mountains. Adjacent Counties Maricopa County Gila County Graham County Pima County Cities & Towns Apache Junction (part) Casa Grande Coolidge Eloy Florence (County Seat) Kearn...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Mohave County, Arizona. Official Website Mohave County was the one of four original Arizona Counties created by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature. The county's present boundaries were established in 1881. The county is also notable for being home to a large polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in La Paz County, Arizona. Official Website La Paz County was established in 1983 making it the only county to be established after Arizona became a state in 1912, and currently the second youngest county in the United States. The Colorado River Indian Reservation is located in the western portion of the county. Adjacent Counties I...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Greenlee County, Arizona. Official Website Greenlee County was created in 1909 and named for Mason Greenlee who was an early settler. The Morenci Mine, the largest copper mining operation in North America, and one of the largest copper mines in the world is located in the county. Adjacent Counties Cochise County Graham County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Graham County, Arizona. Official Website Graham County was created on March 10, 1881. It is named after the mountain by the same name which was named after Lt. Col James Duncan Graham , and was the first Arizona county to break the tradition of naming counties for Native Americans. The county is home to several organizations includ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gila County, Arizona. Official Website Popular theory says that the word Gila was derived from a Spanish contraction of Hah-quah-sa-eel, a Yuma word meaning "running water which is salty". In the 1880s, a long range war broke out in Gila County that became the most costly feud in American history, resulting in an almost complete an...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Coconino County, Arizona. Official Website After the building of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad in 1883 the region of northern Yavapai County began experiencing rapid growth. The people of the northern reaches had tired of the rigors of travelling all the way to Prescott for county business. They also believed that they were a sign...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cochise County, Arizona. Official Website Cochise County was created on February 1, 1881, out of the eastern portion of Pima County. It took its name from the legendary Chiricahua Apache war chief Cochise. The county seat was Tombstone until 1929 when it moved to Bisbee. Notable men who once held the position of County Sheriff were ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Apache County, Arizona . Official Website A history of the area, written in 1896, records the following about the county: Apache County was created in 1879 and lies in the northeastern corner of the Territory. Until March, 1895, it also embraced what is now Navajo County, but at that date the latter was set apart and established as...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Phoenix, Arizona. Official Website History Paleo & Archaic Indian Period The first inhabitants of the desert southwest, including what would become Phoenix, called Paleo-Indians, were hunters and gatherers. The term "paleo", is derived from the Greek word “palaios,” meaning ancient. They hunted Pleistocene animals, such as mammoth...