Arizona

[thegunsmith2506]

A friend sent this to me but he didn't write it. 

 

 

 

DID YOU KNOW THIS ABOUT ARIZONA?

 

1. Arizona has 3,928 mountain peaks and summits, more mountains than any one of the other Mountain States (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming).

 

2. All New England, plus the state of Pennsylvania would fit inside Arizona.

 

3. Arizona became the 48th state and last of the contiguous states on February 14, 1912.

 

4. Arizona's disparate climate can yield both the highest temperature across the nation and the lowest temperature across the nation in the same day.

 

5. There are more wilderness areas in Arizona than in the entire Midwest. Arizona alone has 90 wilderness areas, while the Midwest has 50.

 

6. Arizona has 26 peaks that are more than 10,000 feet in elevation.

 

7. Arizona has the largest contiguous stand of Ponderosa pines in the world stretching from near Flagstaff along the Mogollon Rim to the White Mountains region.

 

8. Yuma, Arizona is the country's highest producer of winter vegetables, especially lettuce.

 

9. Arizona is the 6th largest state in the nation, covering 113,909 square miles.

 

10. Out of all the states in the U.S., Arizona has the largest percentage of its land designated as Indian lands.

 

11. The Five C's of Arizona's economy are: Cattle, Copper, Citrus, Cotton, and Climate.

 

12. More copper is mined in Arizona than all the other states combined, and the Morenci Mine is the largest copper producer in all of North America.

 

13. Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, two of the most prominent movie stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, were married on March 18, 1939, in Kingman, Arizona.

 

14. Covering 18,608 sq. miles, Coconino County is the second largest county by land area in the 48 contiguous United States.

        (San Bernardino County in California is the largest)

 

15. The world's largest solar telescope is located at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Sells, Arizona..

 

16. Bisbee, Arizona is known as the Queen of the Copper Mines because during its mining heyday it produced nearly 25 percent of the world's copper and was the largest city in the Southwest between Saint Louis and San Francisco.

 

17. Billy the Kid killed his first man, Windy Cahill, in Bonita, Arizona.

 

18. Arizona grows enough cotton each year to make more than one pair of jeans for every person in the United States.

 

19. Famous labor leader and activist Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma.

 

20. In 1912, President William Howard Taft was ready to make Arizona a state on February 12, but it was Lincoln's birthday. The next day, the 13th, was considered bad luck so they waited until the following day. That' how Arizona became known as the Valentine State.

 

21. When England's famous London Bridge was replaced in the 1960s, the original was purchased, dismantled, shipped stone by stone and reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it still stands today.

 

22. Mount Lemmon, Tucson, in the Santa Catalina Mountains, is the southernmost ski resort in the United States.

 

23. Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch in Picacho, Arizona is the largest privately-owned ostrich ranch in the world outside South Africa.

 

24. If you cut down a protected species of cactus in Arizona, you could spend more than a year in prison.

 

25. The world's largest to-scale collection of miniature airplane models is housed at the library at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona.

 

26. The only place in the country where mail is delivered by mule is the village of Supai, located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

 

27. Located on Arizona's western border, Parker Dam is the deepest dam in the world at 320 feet.

 

28. South Mountain Park/Preserve in Phoenix is the largest municipal park in the country.

 

29. Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, located about 55 miles west of Phoenix, generates more electricity than any other U.S. power plant.

 

30. Oraibi, a Hopi village located in Navajo County, Arizona, dates back to before A.D. 1200 and is reputed to be the oldest continuously inhabited community in America.

 

31. Built by Del Webb in 1960, Sun City, Arizona was the first 55-plus active adult retirement community in the country.

 

32. Petrified wood is the official state fossil. The Petrified Forest in northeastern Arizona contains America's largest deposits of petrified wood.

 

33. Many of the founders of San Francisco in 1776 were Spanish colonists from Tubac, Arizona.

 

34. Phoenix originated in 1866 as a hay camp to supply military post Camp McDowell.

 

35. Rainfall averages for Arizona range from less than three inches in the deserts to more than 30 inches per year in the mountains.

 

36. Rising to a height of 12,643 feet, Mount Humphreys north of Flagstaff is the state's highest mountain.

 

37. Roadrunners are not just in cartoons! In Arizona, you'll see them running up to 17-mph away from their enemies.

 

38. The Saguaro cactus is the largest cactus found in the U.S. It can grow as high as a five-story building and is native to the Sonoran Desert, which stretches across southern Arizona.

 

39. Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, grew up on a large family ranch near Duncan, Arizona.

 

40. The best-preserved meteor crater in the world is located near Winslow, Arizona.

 

41. The average state elevation is 4,000 feet.

 

42. The Navajo Nation spans 27,000 square miles across the states of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, but its capital is seated in Window Rock, Arizona.

 

43. The amount of copper utilized to make the copper dome atop Arizona's Capitol building is equivalent to the amount used in 4.8 million pennies.

 

44. Near Yuma, the Colorado River's elevation dips to 70 feet above sea level, making it the lowest point in the state.

 

45. The geographic center of Arizona is 55 miles southeast of Prescott near the community of Mayer.

 

46. You could pile four 1,300-foot skyscrapers on top of each other and they still would not reach the rim of the Grand Canyon.

 

47. The hottest temperature recorded in Arizona was 128 degrees at Lake Havasu City on June 29, 1994

 

48. The coldest temperature recorded in Arizona was 40 degrees below zero at Hawley Lake on January 7, 1971.

 

49. A saguaro cactus can store up to nine tons of water.

 

50. The state of Massachusetts could fit inside Maricopa County (9,922 sq. miles).

 

51. The westernmost battle of the Civil War was fought at Picacho Pass on April 15, 1862 near Picacho Peak in Pinal County

 

52. There are 11.2 million acres of National Forest in Arizona, and one-fourth of the state forested.

 

53. Wyatt Earp was neither the town marshal nor the sheriff in Tombstone at the time of the shoot-out at the O..K. Corral. His brother Virgil was the town marshal.

 

54. On June 6, 1936, the first barrel of tequila produced in the United States rolled off the production line in Nogales, Arizona.

 

55. The Sonoran Desert is the most biologically diverse desert in North America.

 

56. Bisbee is the Nation's Southernmost mile-high city.

 

57. The two largest man-made lakes in the U.S. are Lake Mead and Lake Powell, both located in Arizona.

 

58. The longest remaining intact section of Route 66 can be found in Arizona and runs from Seligman to Topock, a total of 157 unbroken miles.

 

59. The 13 stripes on the Arizona flag represent the 13 original colonies of the United States.

 

60. The negotiations for Geronimo's final surrender took place in Skeleton Canyon, near present day Douglas, Arizona, in 1886.

 

61. Prescott, Arizona is home to the world's oldest rodeo, and Payson, Arizona is home to the world's oldest continuous rodeo, both of which date back to the 1880's.

 

62. Kartchner Caverns, near Benson, Arizona, is a massive limestone cave with 13,000 feet of passages, two rooms as long as football fields, and one of the world's longest soda straw stalactites: measuring 21 feet 3 inches.

 

63. You can carry a loaded firearm on your person, no permit required.

 

64. Arizona has one of the lowest crime rates in the U.S.A.

 

65. We've reached max capacity so don't move here!

[tomharveyb]

Good stuff.   Saved the best for last!

[Outdoor Writer]

 

10 minutes ago, thegunsmith2506 said:

40. The best-preserved meteor crater in the world is located near Winslow, Arizona.

[CatfishKev]

Not sure if the 5 Cs thing is correct, i was told they stand for Canyons, Culture, Climate, Copper and Cotton

I was under the impression mount graham telescope was bigger then kitt peak, and i dont think either are any longer the largest.

Not in this list, but i also read that due to the san pedro river corridor Cochise county has the largest concentration of mammals anywhere in the world second only to the rain forest in Costa Rica 

I dont know any of these for sure though

[thegunsmith2506]

1 hour ago, CatfishKev said:

Not sure if the 5 Cs thing is correct, i was told they stand for Canyons, Culture, Climate, Copper and Cotton

I was under the impression mount graham telescope was bigger then kitt peak, and i dont think either are any longer the largest.

Not in this list, but i also read that due to the san pedro river corridor Cochise county has the largest concentration of mammals anywhere in the world second only to the rain forest in Costa Rica 

I dont know any of these for sure though

I am sure if you fact checked the whole list you could find a few wrong facts. I was curious about the ones you brought up so I looked them up. 

I did a quick search and read that Kitt Peak is the larges binocular telescope in the US. Looks like there are bigger telescopes in the US. 

 

I got this from the Az state library

Arizona's Five C's are: Copper, Cattle, Cotton, Citrus and Climate.

Here is some interesting info on the San Pedro. I grew up down there and had no idea how much wildlife that river supported.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pedro_River_(Arizona)

[Big Tub]

I think when I was a kid it was just Copper, Cattle and Cotton

 

[DCS]

Thats why you failed Az civics.Citrus and Climate were always there.

[trphyhntr]

3 hours ago, CatfishKev said:

Not sure if the 5 Cs thing is correct, i was told they stand for Canyons, Culture, Climate, Copper and Cotton

You were told wrong. Heard the AZ 5 c’s mentioned many times in my life, never heard canyons and culture. 

[360 0r Better]

5 hours ago, Outdoor Writer said:

 

And this is wear part of Starman was filmed 

[trphyhntr]

24 minutes ago, Big Tub said:

I think when I was a kid it was just Copper, Cattle and Cotton

 

I think there’s been citrus groves in Phoenix longer than there’s been copper mines anywhere in the state 

[Outdoor Writer]

1 minute ago, 360 0r Better said:

And this is wear part of Starman was filmed 

Yeah. Coincidently, I watched that again about two weeks ago. I like the part where he brings the deer back to life. 

[360 0r Better]

3 minutes ago, Outdoor Writer said:

Yeah. Coincidently, I watched that again about two weeks ago. I like the part where he brings the deer back to life. 

Especially the look on the others faces when it springs back to life and runs off 

[Outdoor Writer]

9 minutes ago, trphyhntr said:

I think there’s been citrus groves in Phoenix longer than there’s been copper mines anywhere in the state 

Copper mines around the state came into being in the first half of the 19th century, i.e. 1800s. Citrus groves didn't happen until the very end of the 1800s. 

[trphyhntr]

3 minutes ago, Outdoor Writer said:

Copper mines around the state came into being in the first half of the 19th century, i.e. 1800s. Citrus groves didn't happen until the very end of the 1800s. 

I thought copper was pretty much worthless until the latest parts of the 1800s. 

[Jimmer Negamanee]

Great list!  Very informative.  Thanks for posting.

Maybe time to add another "C", for computer chips or maybe circuit boards with all the companies making them in AZ?