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99 unusual facts about Arizona


51430 Ireneclaire

It was discovered at the Tenagra II Observatory in Nogales, Arizona, on March 20, 2001.

7th Regiment California Volunteer Infantry

They were assigned to the Presidio of San Francisco in November, 1864, then to Fort Yuma in March, 1865, and finally Fort McDowell, Arizona Territory in September, 1865.

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They were assigned to the Presidio of San Francisco in December, 1864, then to Fort Yuma in June, 1865, then to Fort McDowell, Arizona Territory and Maricopa Wells in September, 1865.

Albert Sieber

When the Camp Verde reservation was closed, Sieber was told to move Yavapais and Tonto Apaches to the San Carlos Reservation in the middle of winter.

American Leadership Academy

It is the only high school operated by the company of the same name, which also runs two K-6 schools in Gilbert and San Tan Valley.

Andrea de Cesaris

At the season's first race in Phoenix de Cesaris selected the wrong gear in the short pre-qualifying session, buzzed the engine and was out.

Andrei Kostitsyn

On May 1, 2012, Kostitsyn and Predators' teammate Alexander Radulov were spotted at a Scottsdale bar at 5:00 AM the night before Game 2 of their second round playoff series against the Phoenix Coyotes, thus breaking curfew.

Angolan War of Independence

The USA granted the company Aero Associates, from Tucson, Arizona, the permission to sell seven Douglas B-26 Invader bombers to Portugal in early 1965, despite Portugal's concerns about their support for the Marxists from Cuba and the USSR.

Annie Rockfellow

In 1905, She moved to Tombstone, Arizona to care for her father, Samuel, then living with his son, John A. Rockfellow.

Anti-Saloon League

Ministers had launched several efforts to close Arizona saloons after the 1906 creation of League chapters in Yuma, Tucson, and Phoenix.

Arizona flagstone

Although flagstone and dimension stone are quarried from all over the state the town of Ash Fork, Arizona is well known as the center of production and has claimed itself "The Flagstone Capital of the World".

Arizona State Route 989

This route number was initially intended as part of a proposed highway network for the Tucson area (in this case, the Tangerine Highway) that was never implemented.

Arizona's 9th congressional district

On February 9, 2012 former Clinton White House aide and Arizona prosecutor Andrei Cherny launched his bid for Congress in the new district.

Arthur Rolland Kelly

Independently, he earned his largest commission to date, the United Verde Copper Company buildings in Jerome, Arizona.

Avra Valley

Robles Junction, Arizona, is also in the southwest, at the junction of the valley going southwest to Sasabe, the Altar Valley.

Bear Valley Raid

After the attack on Peck's ranch the Apaches continued on towards Sycamore Canyon and the nearby homesteads, some twenty miles south of Arivaca.

Boardwalk and Baseball

The Royals moved their spring training home and entire Florida operations department to Surprise, Arizona in 2003.

Boletus barrowsii

It was officially described by Harry D. Thiers and Alexander H. Smith in 1976 from a specimen collected near Jacob Lake, Arizona on August 21, 1971 by amateur mycologist Charles "Chuck" Barrows, who had studied the mushroom in New Mexico.

Brendan Connor

In 2008, he did stories on Turkish NBA star, Hedo Türkoğlu, covered the Davis Cup Tennis Finals in Argentina, reported from the Super Bowl in Phoenix, profiled Indy Racing and driver Danica Patrick, South Korean golfers on the LPGA Tour, and produced a series of pre-Olympic stories on athletes and teams headed to Beijing.

Buckeye Union High School

Finally, the towns of Buckeye, Palo Verde, Arlington, and Liberty came together with the goal of forming an accredited high school.

Burley E. Parke

Having made his contribution to American thoroughbred racing he retired in 1967 and moved with his family to Phoenix, Arizona, spending summers in his beloved Idaho.

Byrd Baylor

Baylor currently lives in Arivaca, Arizona, in an adobe house that does not have electricity, but with three manual typewriters.

CAE Global Academy Phoenix

The same year, it was decided to carry out practical training in flight to Phoenix in the U.S.A because the weather in Arizona allows flights 365 days per year in a high and complex air traffic.

California State Route 62

In 1970, Route 62 ended at the eastern city limit of Twentynine Palms, but it was later extended along the northern boundary of the Joshua Tree National Park to meet Arizona State Route 95 in Parker, Arizona.

Catalina Magnet High School

In the 1960s Catalina was known as the Disneyland for the higher income students who attended Catalina from central Tucson and the Catalina Foothills.

CDS Global

The company employs over 2,500 individuals worldwide, with sites located on three continents; Australia (Sydney), Europe (Market Harborough; Brighton), and North America (Boone, Iowa; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Harlan, Iowa; Tipton, Iowa; West Des Moines, Iowa; Wilton, Iowa; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Prescott, Arizona; New York City; Markham, Ontario; and Montreal).

Child Bride of Short Creek

The film is a dramatization of the lives of the people of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, United States, collectively known as "Short Creek," a community made up of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a Mormon separatist group practicing child marriage and polygamy.

Christina López

In 1986, as a member of the Chicano student organization, MEChA, she fought against an English-only law in Arizona.

Clay Bellinger

Bellinger was recently the assistant coach of the Chandler, Arizona Little League All-Stars, who advanced to the 2007 Little League World Series.

Colonel DeBeers

As of February 2009, Wiskoski was happily living in retirement in Sun City, Arizona.

Dave Stetson

He lived in Vermont until 1962 and then, at the end of his junior year in high school, his father moved the whole family to Phoenix, Arizona.

Desert Hills

Desert Hills, Arizona, a census-designated place in Mohave County, Arizona

Dioptase

In addition, many small, pale-green colored crystals of dioptase have come from the Christmas Mine near Hayden, Arizona.

Dogpatch

Like the Coconino County depicted in George Herriman's Krazy Kat and the Okefenokee Swamp of Walt Kelly's Pogo, Dogpatch's (and Lower Slobbovia's) distinctive cartoon landscape became as identified with the strip as any of its characters.

Doug Coleman

Doug Coleman is an American politician from Apache Junction, Arizona who has served as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives since January 2013.

Eddie Baker

Eddie Baker, ASCAP writer, composer, and producer started his musical career in Indianapolis Indiana during his early years, and moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1971.

Edward Banker Willis

From San Diego, Willis marched with James H. Carleton's expedition across New Mexico Territory and was involved in the capture of Tucson, an old Spanish presidio defended by a handful of milita.

Elachista loriella

The species is named for Mrs. Lori Ortiz to honour her contribution in the kitchen of the Southwestern Research Station in Portal, Arizona.

Erigeron piscaticus

It is endemic to Arizona in the United States, where it is known from three locations in Maricopa and Graham Counties.

Evanka Osmak

After receiving a diploma in radio and television broadcasting in 2005 at Seneca College, she changed careers as she worked at CICX-FM in Orillia, Ontario as a news anchor, then moved to Yuma, Arizona to work at KYMA-TV for two years, before returning to Canada.

Everspin Technologies

Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Everspin owns and operates a manufacturing line for its proprietary magnetic back-end-of-line wafer processing, and leverages standard CMOS wafers from foundries.

First Battle of Dragoon Springs

On May 5, 1862, a small mounted Confederate foraging party was gathering stray cattle in the area around an abandoned Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach station and spring in the Dragoon Mountains, about sixteen miles from the present-day town of Benson and near Dragoon, Arizona.

Fruit and vegetable beer

Black Mountain Brewing Company in Cave Creek, Arizona brews "Cave Creek Chili Beer", the only internationally marketed chile beer.

Furlong

Blocks in central Logan, Utah, and in large sections of Phoenix, Arizona, are similarly a square furlong in extent (eight to a mile, which explains the series of freeway exits: 19th Ave, 27th, 35th, 43rd, 51st, 59th ...).

Henry Morello

Henry 'Hank' Morello is an 84-year-old man from Anthem, Arizona who gained notoriety after surviving 5 days in the Arizona desert after his vehicle got stuck in a ravine near Crave Creek.

Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov

In August 2005, three months before his death, he tied for eighth place at the U.S. Open Chess Championship in Phoenix, Arizona against some of the best players in the country.

Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon

She also revealed the album cover, in which she is seen from behind in the desert of Tucson, Arizona.

Isaac T. Stoddard

In June 1903, while Governor Alexander Brodie was out of the Territory, Acting Governor Stoddard was faced with a strike of about 3,500 miners in Morenci, Arizona, and sent out the entire force of the Territorial Militia to preserve order.

James R. Wait

Between 1948 and 1951, he worked for Newmont Exploration in Jerome, Arizona, where his research led to several patents in both IP and EM methods of geophysical prospecting.

John Henry Waddell

Within ten months another studio, albeit a smaller one, had been built near Cornville, Arizona, and Waddell was able to resume his sculpting.

Johnny Tatum

He lived in Laveen, Arizona where he maintained several successful business ventures until his death in 1994.

Joseph Graves Olney

On one such drive, Olney, John Ringo, Ike Clanton, and Al Turner hurrahed the town of Safford, Arizona, a typical cowboy behavior.

KIXI

In 2013, Sandusky Radio sold its radio holdings in Seattle and Phoenix, Arizona to Hubbard Broadcasting.

KYWD

KYWD broadcasts on the frequency of 97.1 MHz and is licensed to broadcast from Green Valley, Arizona (a southern suburb of Tucson).

La Costa

She graduated from Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona and began working as a medical records technician as she sang in clubs and became Miss Country Music, Phoenix.

Lalo Guerrero

Guerreo was born in Tucson, Arizona, one of 21 siblings (although only nine survived).

Laveen Elementary School District

The Laveen Elementary School District is the K-8 school district for Laveen, an area of southwest Phoenix, Arizona.

Louis E. Crandall

Crandall was born July 27, 1929, in Mesa, Arizona, to Louis Packer Crandall and Louise Marie Crismon.

Lufthansa Flight Training

The Airline Training Center Arizona is a facility in Goodyear, Arizona, where future Lufthansa pilots conduct flight training with small aircraft.

Meat Puppets II

Meat Puppets II is the second album by the Tempe, Arizona band the Meat Puppets, released in 1984.

Michael E. Marks

Named the Poet Laureate of the Society of the 9th Infantry Division (United States) (SONID), Marks' work hangs in the Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita, Arizona and has been featured in numerous books, magazines and newspapers around the world, to include Stars and Stripes (newspaper) and The Washington Times.

Nefesch

Nefesch is also an instructor of the Mentalism School in Phoenix Arizona in USA.

Neil L. Andersen

On February 14, 2009, he broke ground for the construction of The Gila Valley Arizona Temple, located in the town of Central, Arizona.

Nicholas Mann

Glastonbury, England, Avebury, England, Sedona, Arizona (USA) and Washington, DC (USA) are all locations which feature in his work.

North Carolina Highway 58

It is also one of the transcontinental highways; running west to Globe, Arizona and originally to Hollywood, California.

Paul Giblin

Paul Giblin is an American investigative journalist based in Phoenix, Arizona.

Petrocelli

Tony Petrocelli was an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who grew up in South Boston and gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in the American Southwest called San Remo (filmed in Tucson, Arizona).

Plan for Greater Baghdad

The Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium at Arizona State University's Tempe, Arizona campus is reputed to have been based on this opera house design.

Portal Ranger Station

The Portal Ranger Station, also known as Portal Work Station, in Coronado National Forest near Portal, Arizona was built in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Public transport in Phoenix

Towns such as Buckeye, Cave Creek and Laveen are localities in Maricopa County which are omitted from Valley Metro’s routes; people living in these areas must commute miles to the nearest bus stops in surrounding cities.

Raising Sextuplets

On September 11, 2010, Bryan Masche was arrested at his father-in-law's home in Camp Verde, Arizona for resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and threatening per domestic violence.

Ray Krone

Krone was labeled "the snaggle tooth killer" (a feature which has since been corrected) and spent 10 years in prison, including two years on death row, after being found guilty of killing a Phoenix, Arizona bartender in 1991.

Reuben's Accomplice

Reuben's Accomplice (styled Reubens Accomplice) is an American band from Phoenix, Arizona.

Richard and Maurice McDonald

The McDonald brothers began franchising their successful restaurant chain in 1953, beginning in Phoenix, Arizona with Neil Fox.

Richard D. Lines

Together with his wife Helen Calvert Lines, also a keen astronomer, he built a small observatory in Mayer, Arizona.

Romana Acosta Bañuelos

Acosta, daughter of poor Mexican immigrants, was born in the tiny mining town of Miami, Arizona, on March 20, 1925.

Ron Nelson

As of August 2012, Ron Nelson resided with his wife Michele in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Roosevelt Red Ware

Dinwiddie Polychrome has a very restricted spatial distribution and may "not occur west of a line drawn through Kinishba, near Whiteriver, and the Nine Mile site, near Bowie Arizona" (Neuzil and Lyons 2005: 30).

Rucker Canyon

The wash drains into the southern region of the slightly north-west by due south Sulphur Springs Valley, east of north-south running U.S. Route 191 and the small communities of Elfrida, McNeal, and Sunizona.

Sacramento Wash

I-40 joins the central section of the wash proper at Yucca, Arizona and the interstate follows the valley and wash west to meet the Colorado River at Needles.

San Cristobal Valley

The Gila River valley and Interstate 8 in Arizona are at the north end of the valley between the communities of Mohawk and Dateland.

Santa Maria Mountains

Southwest are other various ridges and mesas, that are all part of smaller mountain areas just northeast of the mining district of Bagdad.

Sexy Love

There is also a remix to the song that features rapper Joe Budden as well as a version that features rapper Juelz Santana done by multi-artist deejay also Phoenix rapper himself City Boy.

Shane Lacy Hensley

Shane Lacy Hensley is an author, game designer, and CEO of Pinnacle Entertainment Group and is a resident of Gilbert, Arizona.

Spencer Larsen

Larsen earned SuperPrep All-Farwest honors and was named First-team All-State by The Arizona Republic as a senior at Highland High School in Gilbert, Arizona after recorded 124 tackles as a senior.

Sunflower Ranger Station

The Sunflower Ranger Station, also known as Sunflower Administrative Site and as Sycamore Ranger Station, in Coronado National Forest near Punkin Center, Arizona was built in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Tank Mountains

North, east, and southeast of the Tank Mountains lies the extensive Palomas Plain which drains southeastly towards Hyder and the Gila River valley.

TGSCOM

TGSCOM was founded in Arizona in 1999 by Eric Thompson, and was based in Tempe, Arizona until October 2006 when the entire operation was moved to Green Bay.

The Mine with the Iron Door

While shooting the film the cast and crew stayed at the Triangle L Ranch and the Wilson Ranch (Rancho Linda Vista) outside of Oracle, Arizona off Historic US Route 80.

The New Dick Van Dyke Show

Van Dyke was living in Cave Creek, Arizona at the time and did not want to move back to Hollywood, so the network agreed to film the show at Southwestern Studio on Stage 1 in nearby Carefree, Arizona.

United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2004

The 2004 congressional elections in Arizona were elections for Arizona's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred along with congressional elections nationwide on November 2, 2004.

Universidad Latinoamericana

In 2007, it was purchased by the Apollo Group Inc.,a corporation based in the Phoenix, Arizona.

Vernon Parker

Parker was the Republican nominee in Arizona's 9th congressional district for the 2012 election, although he did not live in the district at the time.

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In 2012, Parker ran for the United States House of Representatives in Arizona's 9th district.

Virgin River Gorge

The Virgin River Gorge, located between St. George, Utah, and Littlefield, Arizona, is a long canyon that has been carved out by the Virgin River in northwest Arizona.

Wayne deck

It is named after a video engineer Wayne Stockton based in Phoenix, Arizona.

West Valley Hospital

West Valley Hospital is an acute-care community hospital located in Goodyear, Arizona, United States.

XHILA-TDT

It broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 46, serving the Mexicali Valley and the southern Imperial Valley, including El Centro, California, and the Colorado River cities of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora and Yuma, Arizona.

Yellow Knolls

Yellow Knolls is approximately 15-mi northeast of Littlefield-Beaver Dam, Arizona in the northeast of the Virgin Valley, and about 20-mi southwest of St. George, Utah.


Alberto Ríos

At the request of Governor-elect Janet Napolitano, Ríos wrote and delivered a poem at Arizona's gubernatorial inauguration in 2003.

Amanda Aguirre

In May 2012, Aguirre announced that she was entering the race to represent Arizona's 3rd congressional district.

Andrew J. Weaher

He was one of 34 men received the Medal of Honor for gallantry in several engagements against the Apache Indians, specifically in the Black Mountains of Arizona, from August to October 1868.

Arizona Summer League

All teams are based in the Yuma, Arizona, area playing all games at Desert Sun Stadium (home of the Scorpions) and utilizing the Ray Kroc Complex which used to house the San Diego Padres and Yakult Swallows spring training operations.

Athletic scholarship

In February 2012, a member of the Arizona House of Representatives proposed a bill named HB 2675 which would have required students attending a public university in the state of Arizona (Arizona State University, University of Arizona, or Northern Arizona University) to pay an additional $2,000 fee in order to attend one of the 3 universities.

Blue Range Wilderness

It is located on the western border of New Mexico where it adjoins the Blue Range Primitive Area of Arizona and west of U.S. Route 180 between Reserve and Glenwood.

Britt Boyse

She is currently living in Arizona, and is Executive Director of Casting Crown Productions, which was given the license to produce the Miss Arizona USA and Miss Arizona Teen USA pageants in 2006.

Brown-backed Solitaire

One singing bird was found in Miller Canyon, in the Huachuca Mountains of Southeastern Arizona, and documented by the youth birding Victor Emanuel Nature Tours' Camp Chiricahua in July 2009.

Celeste McCollough

She worked on the role of colour in flight simulation displays for the Air Force Human Resources Lab at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona (e.g., Howard, 1992; Howard, 1994; Howard, 1996).

Cyrene

Kyrene School District, a K-8 school district in Maricopa County, Arizona

David Tineo

During this period Tineo spent time working with the Brown Berets, MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan) and other community activist groups, and he is still considered one of the most influential leaders of the Chicano Mural Movement in Arizona.

Demsky

Danielle Demski, a Arizona beauty queen who has competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA pageants.

Desert Ridge High School

In 2007 the DRHS Drama Department's production of The Odd Couple was selected to go the Arizona Thespian Society's Annual State Conference as a main stage performance, to be performed in front of the estimated 1,900 thespians attending the event in November.

Edward Gibson

He completed a 53-week course in flight training at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona, and earned his Air Force wings.

Galisteo Basin

Various peoples, known and unknown, inhabited the area, including the Tano (Arizona Tewa), East Rio Grande Keresan, Pecos, and Tewa.

GBU-10 Paveway II

Raytheon production of the Paveway II is centered in Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico.

Hans-Walter Rix

He was Hubble Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton 1991-1994, then returned to the University of Arizona, and has been director of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg since 1999.

Heard Building

The Heard Building (alternatively the Greater Arizona Savings Building) is a 7-story high-rise building in Phoenix, Arizona, it housed the offices of The Arizona Republic (formerly the Arizona Republican) and the Phoenix Gazette from 1920 to 1948.

Horne v. Flores

The case is styled after the plaintiff, Miriam Flores, one of the parents involved in the case, and the defendant, Thomas Horne, the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Huachuca Mountains

Along the trails there are opportunities to see a number of rare butterflies of Arizona (see List of butterflies and moths of Arizona), as well as plants that are more commonly found in the Sierra Madre Occidental.

Jay Kalk

In the Summer of 2003, Warsaw was the headlining act of the Tour de Fat, which had 13 dates in the Southwest States.Warsaw is sponsored by Jägermeister and played the Arizona date of the Jägermeister Music Tour opening for Alterbridge in 2004.

John Joseph Tuchi

On September 19, 2013, President Obama nominated Tuchi to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, to the seat vacated by Judge Roslyn O. Silver, who took senior status on September 3, 2013.

José Joaquín Moraga

José Joaquín Moraga was born on August 22, 1745 at Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi in the northern frontier region of the Viceroyalty of New Spain (in present day Arizona).

Joseph Polchinski

He graduated from Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson, Arizona in 1971, obtained his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1975, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 under the supervision of Stanley Mandelstam.

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

Both these pueblos and missions were on the California side of the Colorado River near the mouth of the Gila River but were administered by the Arizona authorities.

Kelvin Jack

Kelvin Jack started his career playing in Trinidad and Tobago with hometown club Trincity United and Joe Public before earning a scholarship to join Yavapai College in Arizona.

KJLL

KWFM, a radio station (1330 AM) licensed to South Tucson, Arizona, United States, known as KJLL from 1999 through 2012

KWMT

KMIY, a radio station (92.9 FM) licensed to serve Tucson, Arizona, United States, which held the call sign KWMT-FM from 2003 to 2011

KWSS

KWSS-LP, a low-power radio station (106.7 FM) licensed to Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Kyl

Jon Kyl (born 1942), U.S. Senator from Arizona (1995–present)

Lewis Owings

Dr. Lewis Sumpter Owings (September 6, 1820-August 20, 1875) was a medical doctor and politician in the New Mexico and Arizona territories.

Markus Gygax

In 1973 he joined the surveillance wing flying the Hawker Hunter, and in 1978 underwent conversion to the F-5 at Williams AFB, Arizona.

Painted Rocks

Painted Rock Petroglyph Site, archaeological site and BLM facility listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, located in Arizona and formerly part of Painted Rock State Park

Phoenix Academy

Phoenix Hebrew Academy, a Jewish day school in Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Princess Irina of Romania

Irina married John Kreuger (born in Solna, Sweden, 3 August 1945), on 4 October 1983, in Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States in a civil ceremony, and on 11 February 1984 in a religious ceremony at Holy Trinity Church in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona.

Progressive Majority

Public officials elected with the help of Progressive Majority include California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, Washington House of Representatives Majority Floor Leader Larry Springer, Washington state senator and 2007 Humane Society of the United States state legislator of the year Brian Weinstein, and Arizona state senator Paula Aboud, one of Arizona's few openly gay elected officials.

Rice, California

The subdivision and siding are still in use, but have since changed hands and currently belong to the Arizona and California Railroad, a short line serving southeastern California from Rice to Cadiz, California and southwestern Arizona at Parker.

Sicmonic

Sicmonic (stylized as (Sic)monic) is an American heavy metal band from Phoenix, Arizona, consisting of Taylor Hession, Ray Goodwin, Ryan Gero, Jason Williams and Zack Sewell.

Springboro, Ohio

Jake Ballard - Player for the Arizona Cardinals (National Football League).

Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains

In an interview with amazon.co.uk she reveals she began writing about a fat man doing yoga in the desert whilst studying on the UEA Creative Writing Course and then spent time herself living in the Arizona desert near Tucson.

The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer says that the main setting of the story is in the vicinity of the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona.

Tom Horne

Horne personally argued at the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Arizona’s law that requires proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

Virgin spinedace

As of 1995, the Virgin spinedace were last officially observed by Bureau of Land Management personnel in 1991, where the remaining fish were caught and deposited at the Arizona State University Museum.

William F. Fitzgerald

On March 3, 1884, following the death of Justice A. W. Sheldon, President Arthur nominated Fitzgerald for a seat on the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court.

Yellow-headed Blackbird

The only regions of the United States where these blackbirds are permanent residents are the San Joaquin Valley and the Lower Colorado River Valley of Arizona and California.