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Tucson (/ ˈtuːsɒn /; O'odham: Cuk Ṣon; Spanish: Tucsón) [ 1 ] is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, [ 7 ] and is home to the University of Arizona. It is the second-largest city in Arizona behind Phoenix, with a population of 542,629 in the 2020 United States census, [ 8 ] while the population of the ...
The history of Tucson, Arizona began thousands of years ago. Paleo-Indians practiced plant husbandry and hunted game in the Santa Cruz River Valley from 10,000 or earlier BCE. Archaic peoples began making irrigation canals, some of the first in North America, around 1,200 BCE. [1] The Hohokam people lived in the Tucson area from around 450 ...
6th, 7th. Website. www.pima.gov. Pima County Fair, 2007. Pima County (/ ˈpiːmə / PEE-mə) is a county in the south central region of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,043,433, [1] making it Arizona's second-most populous county. The county seat is Tucson, [2] where most of the population is centered.
The Ronstadt House – built in 1904 and located at 607 N. 6th Ave. The House was designed and built for Fredrick Ronstadt, a Tucson pioneer, wagon maker, hardware company owner, and Tucson's first automobile dealer. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on February 26, 1979, reference: #79000423.
1776 – Presidio San Augustin del Tucson (military outpost) established. [1] 1779 – December 6: First Battle of Tucson. 1782. May 1: Second Battle of Tucson. December 25: Third Battle of Tucson (1782). 1784 – March 21: Fourth Battle of Tucson, Sonora, New Spain.
Statistics: Tucson Airport Authority [2][3] Tucson International Airport (IATA: TUS, ICAO: KTUS, FAA LID: TUS) is a civil-military airport owned by the City of Tucson 8 miles (7.0 nmi; 13 km) south of downtown Tucson, in Pima County, Arizona, United States. [1] It is the second busiest airport in Arizona, after Phoenix Sky Harbor International ...
Tucson Mountain Park was established in April 1929. The Pima County Parks Commission, with C. B. Brown as its chairman, was established to oversee the park. At approximately 20,000 acres (8,100 ha), the park is one of the largest natural resource areas owned and managed by a local government in the U.S.
Saguaro National Park is a national park of the United States in southeastern Arizona. The 92,000-acre (37,000 ha) park consists of two separate areas—the Tucson Mountain District (TMD), about 10 miles (16 km) west of Tucson, and the Rincon Mountain District (RMD), about 10 miles (16 km) east of the city. Both districts preserve Sonoran ...