Phoenix, Arizona
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
It is about 15 mi west of Phoenix, Arizona.
Williams Air Force Base
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.
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.
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.