Phoenix, Arizona

The Phillip Darrell Duppa adobe house was built in 1870 and is the oldest house in Phoenix. The homestead is named after "Lord" Darrell Duppa, an Englishman who is credited with naming Phoenix and Tempe as well as founding the town of New River.

Phoenix in May 1972, with South Mountain in the background

Sentinel-2 satellite image of the Phoenix metro area in 2020

Fire-damaged saguaro cactus near Phoenix.

Median Household Income across metro Phoenix; the darker the green, the higher the income.

Percent of people living in poverty across metro Phoenix; the darker the red, the higher the concentration of poverty

Map of racial distribution in Phoenix, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

3300 North Central Avenue, an office building in downtown Phoenix

State Farm Stadium on the game day of Super Bowl XLII (February 3, 2008)

The Arizona State Capitol, which used to house the state legislature, is now a museum.

Arizona State Capitol Executive Tower at 1700 W. Washington St.

The campus of ASU from Tempe Butte in nearby Tempe

Thunderbird control tower-Thunderbird School of Global Management

An aerial view of the control tower at Phoenix Sky Harbor that began operations on January 17, 2007.

The Stack (Interstates 10 and 17) interchange at night in 2012

Signpost showing Phoenix's sister cities

Capital and most populous city in the American state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020.

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Hohokam

Culture in the North American Southwest in what is now part of Arizona, United States, and Sonora, Mexico.

The Great House at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

Map of Hohokam and neighboring cultures, circa 1350

Hiking trail leading to Indian Mesa (in the background): The hiking trail is located on a portion of a canal which the Hohokam built in AD 700. The canal is now filled with soil.

Sears-Kay Ruin Fort Mystery Room before circa 1050 AD: This room had rounded corners.

Sears-Kay Ruin Fort rooms with square corners, circa 1050 AD

Hohokam Sacaton red-on-buff plate, ca 950-1150 AD. On display at Pueblo Grande museum, Phoenix.

The distinctively modern-looking roof was built in 1932, to protect the Great House or Casa Grande, at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

The Mesa Grande Temple Mound is located in the Mesa Grande Cultural Park at 1000 N. Date St. Built by the Hohokam in AD 1100, the walls are made of caliche, the calcium carbonate hardpan that forms under the desert soils. The mound is longer and wider than a modern football field and is 27 feet high.

In modern-day Phoenix, the Hohokam are recognized for their large-scale irrigation networks.

Arizona Territory

Territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863, until February 14, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Arizona.

Map of the Arizona and New Mexico Territories, showing existing counties

The capital was finally moved to Phoenix on February 4, 1889.

Tempe, Arizona

City in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, with the Census Bureau reporting a 2020 population of 180,587.

Hayden Ferry Lakeside development on the north end of Downtown Tempe

A Tempe station of Valley Metro light rail

Mill Avenue bridges over Tempe Town Lake at night

Phillip Darrell Duppa is credited with giving Tempe its name.

Tempe is located in the East Valley section of metropolitan Phoenix; it is bordered by Phoenix and Guadalupe on the west, Scottsdale and the Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community on the north, Chandler on the south, and Mesa on the east.

Phoenix metropolitan area

Map showing cities and highways in the Phoenix–Mesa–Chandler MSA, as defined by the U.S. Census as both Maricopa and Pinal counties.

The Phoenix Metropolitan Area – also the Valley of the Sun, the Salt River Valley, or Metro Phoenix (known by most locals simply as “the Valley”) – is the largest metropolitan area in the Southwestern United States, centered on the city of Phoenix, that includes much of the central part of Arizona.

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

Aerial view of the new control tower in the foreground, and the old control tower in the background, with Terminal 3 in between, looking southwest

Sky Harbor's Control Tower with Downtown Phoenix in the distance

American Airlines aircraft at Terminal 4

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is a civil-military public airport 3 mi east of downtown Phoenix, in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.

Salt River (Arizona)

River in Gila and Maricopa counties in Arizona, United States, that is the largest tributary of the Gila River.

The Salt River as seen in Salt River Canyon, 2004

Salt River alongside State Route 77, September 2006

Rio Salado south of Stewart Mountain Dam

Salt River passing below the Central Avenue Bridge in southern Phoenix after winter rains, March 2010

Wild horses grazing on the banks of the Rio Salado

Below Granite Reef Dam, the Salt River leaves the mountains and flows past the cities of Mesa, Tempe, and Scottsdale, then south of downtown Phoenix, where it passes north of South Mountain Park.

Luke Air Force Base

United States Air Force base located 7 mi west of the central business district of Glendale, in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.

Three F-84Cs from the 3600th Flying Training Wing, flying over the Arizona desert

4514th CCTS North American F-100F-10-NA Super Sabre 56-3917, about 1962. To MASDC 31 July 1979 as FE0567. Converted to QF-100F.

311th TFTS F-4C-19-MC Phantom 63-7584, marked as Wing Commander's aircraft. Now at McChord Air Museum, Washington.

Ling-Temco-Vought A-7D-3-CV Corsair II (68–6226) of the 310th TFTS, May 1971

555th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron McDonnell Douglas F-15A-11-MC Eagle 74-0111, arrival at Luke AFB, November 1974. First production F-15A arrival for training.

312th TFTS – F-16D Block 25 83-1175 Aircraft marked as "F-16D No. 1"

ROCAF 6610 (93-0711) and 6620 (93-0721) in USAF markings flying in formation as part of the 21st FS

Three West German Air Force Lockheed F-104G Starfighters fly in formation over Arizona.

69th TFTS/West German F-104G Starfighter

It is about 15 mi west of Phoenix, Arizona.

Williams Air Force Base

Postcard from Williams Field showing aircraft and cadets standing in formation

T-33 Jet Trainers at Williams AFB, June 1949

Emblem of the 3525th Pilot Training Wing

Skoshi Tiger F-5B of the 602th Fighter Squadron, Bien Hoa AB, South Vietnam, 1966

425th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron Northrop F-5B-50-NO Freedom Fighter, AF Ser. No. 72-0439, Williams AFB, Arizona, 1973

425th TFTS Northrop F-5E Tiger II, AF Ser. No. 72-1400. When the F-5 training program ended in 1989, this aircraft was sold to the Brazilian Air Force.

Northrop T-38A-50-NO Talon, AF Ser. No. 63-8221, 1986

Female members of UPT Class 77-08 of Williams Air Force Base, May 1977

Williams Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force (USAF) base, located in Maricopa County, Arizona, east of Chandler, and about 30 mi southeast of Phoenix.

Wickenburg, Arizona

Town in Maricopa and Yavapai counties, Arizona, United States.

Grant's Stage Station, Wickenburg, 1873 or 1874

Vicinity marker where the Wickenburg Massacre took place in 1871

Sonoran Desert outside Wickenburg, Arizona

Wickenburg Town Hall located at 155 North Tegner Street

Swilling conducted irrigation efforts in that area and helped found the city of Phoenix.

Tohono Oʼodham

The Tohono Oʼodham (Oʼodham: ) are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the northern Mexican state of Sonora.

Papago basketmaker at work, Arizona. Photographed by H. T. Cory, 1916.

Luzi, a Tohono Oʼodham woman
photograph by Edward Curtis circa 1905

The Tohono Oʼodham share linguistic and cultural roots with the closely related Akimel Oʼodham (People of the River), historically known as Pima, whose lands lie just south of present-day Phoenix, along the lower Gila River.