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The locals told travelers it "got named by a bunch of drunks." [2] Nothing has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.[3]The settlement was established in 1977 by Richard "Buddy" Kenworthy, [4] located 118 miles (190 km) northwest of Phoenix, [5] and 23 miles (37 km) south of Wikieup, the "rattlesnake capital of Arizona."
Many Farms is an English translation of the Navajo name of the area and is descriptive. The farms became fully irrigated in 1937. [5]From 1952 to 1962, the Many Farms community was the location of two major medical experiments led by Walsh McDermott.
The Arizona territorial government was organized here, and later a monument at the springs was erected to commemorate the event. At the insistence of the Santa Fe Railway company, all Navajos were forcibly moved away from the Navajo Springs area, and by the 1930s, all allotted lands within the area were extinguished and the lands forcibly vacated.
Second Mesa is a census-designated place (CDP) in Navajo County, Arizona, on the Hopi Reservation, atop the 5,700-foot (1,740 m) mesa.As of the 2020 census, the CDP population was 843, spread among three Hopi Indian villages, Musungnuvi (or Mishongnovi), Supawlavi (or Sipaulovi), and Songoopavi (or Shungopavi).
A map showing the extent of the Hohokam, Mogollon, and Ancestral Puebloan cultures circa 1350 CE. Paleo-Indians are believed to have first settled present-day Arizona at least 13,000 years ago. Clovis spear points have been discovered in several locations along the San Pedro River, including at the Naco and Lehner Mammoth Kill Sites.
Bagdad is a copper mining community and census-designated place (CDP) in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States, in the western part of the state. It is one of only two remaining company towns in Arizona. The population was 1,876 at the 2010 census, up from 1,578 in 2000.
At the 2000 census, there were 1,829 people, 700 households, and 552 families in the town.The population density was 727.3 inhabitants per square mile (280.8/km 2).There were 1,144 housing units at an average density of 454.9 per square mile (175.6/km 2).
The Civil Engineering Maintenance Shop also known as S-735, located in Unity Ave. (Jct. of 11th and A Sts.), at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus (Formally Williams AFB), Mesa, Arizona. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, ref: #95000747.