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Oro Valley, incorporated in 1974, is a suburban town located 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Tucson, Arizona, United States, in Pima County. According to the 2020 census , the population of the town is 47,070, an increase from 29,700 in 2000 .
On January 1, 2017, in the Arizona Daily Star newspaper, historian David Leighton challenged the accepted history of the town of Oracle: . He wrote that Albert Weldon who was born about 1840 in New Brunswick, Canada, traveled on his uncle Capt. A.D. Wood's ship Oracle around Cape Horn at the tip of South America and arrived in California between 1857 and 1860.
Significant distances requiring transportation in Southern Arizona are generally traveled by highway and the railroad. Southern Arizona is the location of the major transcontinental Interstate highway Interstate 10 from the border with New Mexico westward through Tucson, and then continuing northwest via Casa Grande to the Phoenix–Scottsdale–Mesa metropolis.
Oraibi, also referred to as Old Oraibi, is a Hopi village in Navajo County, Arizona, United States, in the northeastern part of the state. Known as Orayvi by the native inhabitants, it is on Third Mesa on the Hopi Reservation near Kykotsmovi Village .
Map of the United States with Arizona highlighted. Arizona is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, Arizona is the 14th most populous state with 7,151,502 inhabitants (as of the 2020 census) [1] and the 6th largest by land area spanning 113,623.1 square miles (294,282 km 2). [2]
The Cañada del Oro (Spanish, 'Canyon of Gold'), is a primary watershed channel in Oro Valley, Arizona, U.S. [1]. The Cañada del Oro originates in the remote Canyon del Oro in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, fed by rainfall and melted snow from the northern face of Mount Lemmon and flows northward toward the town of Oracle.
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This is a list of cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other places in the U.S. state of Arizona, which start with the letter O.This list is derived from the Geographic Names Information System, which has numerous errors, so it also includes many ghost towns and historical places that are not necessarily communities or actual populated places.