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The
Grand Canyon is 227 miles long, 1 mile deep, and has an average
width of 10 miles.
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Navajo
Community College in Tsaile, was the first college on an Indian
reservation.
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Arizona
observes Mountain Standard Time on a year round basis, never
observing daylight savings time.
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Arizona
is roughly the size of Italy.
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Arizona
has more parks and national monuments than any other state, more
mountains than Switzerland, and more golf courses than Scotland.
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The
hottest recorded day in Phoenix was June 26, 1990, when the
temperature hit 122 degrees.
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The
original London Bridge was shipped stone-by-stone and reconstructed
in Lake Havasu City.
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In
World War II, many Navajos enlisted as secret agents.
Our enemies could never understand the Navajo language to
learn our military secrets.
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The
sun shines in southern Arizona 85% of the time, which is
considerably more sunshine than Florida or Hawaii.
Arizona also frequently has the hottest and coldest
temperatures on the same day.
The temperature could be 75 degrees in the desert to 45
degrees in the high country.
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Camels
were used at one time to transport goods across Arizona.
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Four
Corners is the spot in the United States where a person can stand in
four states at the same time.
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Historically,
Arizona’s strongest economic support came from the Four C’s –
cotton, copper, cattle, and citrus.
In recent years, a fifth – climate – has been added.
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Arizona
has the largest percentage of its land set aside and designated as
Indian lands.
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The
Anasazi Indians made waterproof baskets that they cooked in.
They put hot rocks in with the food to cook it.
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The
world’s largest solar telescope is located at Kitts Peak National
Observatory in the city of Sells.
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The Navajo
Reservation, the nation's largest reservation, lies primarily in
Arizona and extends into Utah and New
Mexico.
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In 1876 the
Chiricahua Apache chief Geronimo began ten years of raids against
white settlements when the U.S.
government attempted to move his tribe
from their traditional home in Arizona
to a reservation in New Mexico.
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Arizona
became the home of the first major irrigation project by the U.S.
Bureau of Reclamation when former U.S.
president Theodore Roosevelt dedicated a dam on the Salt River in
1911.
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The
largest escape from a U.S. Prisoner of War camp during WWII occurred in
the Phoenix area at Papago Park POW camp. 25 German prisoners escaped.
