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unusual facts about State of Arizona



Thomas Ranch

Starting back in 1902, 10 years prior to the Arizona Territory becoming the State of Arizona, the name "The Thomas Ranch" was registered by Edward E. Thomas, in Bisbee, Arizona, which was incorporated some months earlier in January 1902.

Yavapai County, Arizona

:*About 25% of Yavapai County is owned by the State of Arizona as state trust lands, managed by the Arizona State Land Department.


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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.

Black Indians in the United States

Radmilla Cody, 46th Miss Navajo Nation (1998), traditional singer, enrolled member of the Navajo Nation with ancestry, and advocate against domestic violence in both the Navajo Nation and the state of Arizona.

George Hunt

George W. P. Hunt (1859–1934), first Governor of the State of Arizona

Gossypium thurberi

Desert cotton (Gossypium thurberi), also known as Arizona wild cotton and Thurber's cotton, is a wild species of cotton native to the Sonoran desert area of northern Mexico and parts of the state of Arizona in the United States.

I17

Interstate 17, an intrastate Interstate Highway located entirely within the state of Arizona, United States

Maricopa County Community College District

The Phoenix Union High School District established Phoenix Junior College (now Phoenix College) in 1920; it was the first community college in the state of Arizona.

Richard M. Ramin

Mrs. Denise (DeConcini) Ramin is the daughter of Dennis DeConcini, former United States Senator from the State of Arizona and Mrs. Susan (Hurley) DeConcini of Tucson, Arizona.

Risks to the Glen Canyon Dam

The Glen Canyon Dam, a concrete arch dam on the Colorado River in the U.S. state of Arizona, has had both positive and negative impacts, which have been covered in many literary works.

Theodore Roosevelt Lake

Located roughly 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Phoenix in the Salt River Valley, Theodore Roosevelt is the largest lake or reservoir located entirely within the state of Arizona (Lake Mead and Lake Powell are larger but both are located partially within the neighboring states of Nevada and Utah respectively).

Tucson Garbage Project

The Tucson Garbage Project is an archaeological and sociological study instituted in 1973 by Dr. William Rathje in the city of Tucson in the Southwestern American state of Arizona.