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It now consists of 6 units: Gila, Maricopa, Eggers, Mohave, Papago and the Complex Detention Unit ( CDU ).

Overhead imagery ( see coordinates given above ) of the Gila River and Jordan Lake sites suggests that the original design called for antennas of twice the present length with, presumably, greater radiated power.

The City of Glendale and the Gila River Indian Community opposed the project for various reasons, arguing that it would harm residential neighborhoods and compete with tax-paying businesses.

Duncan and the surrounding area along the Gila River is world-renowned for Native American artifacts such as arrow heads, pottery, burial sites, cave paintings and other remnants of the Anasazi and other pre-historic cultures.

Chandler has reached its physical limits save for some remaining county islands and cannot expand outward anymore due to being bound in by the Gila River Indian Community, Tempe, Mesa, Gilbert, and Phoenix.

The town is named for an approximately 90-degree bend in the Gila River, which is close to but not precisely at the community's current location.

On December 14, 2006, Volkswagen of America, Inc., leased of land at a cost of $ 55 million for 25 years, ten miles ( 16 km ) west of Gila Bend, on which they plan to develop a new automobile proving ground.

Gila Bend has extremely hot summers with highest temperatures recorded for the state of Arizona, and temperatures at or exceeding 110 ° F ( 41 ° C ) are the norm for the entirety of summer as well as the beginning of September.

The station was named for the nearby Maricopa village of Sacaton four miles down the Gila from the station.

One of the sites seriously considered for the new airfield was on the Gila River Indian Reservation located near Chandler, Arizona.

Gila Kahila Bar-Gal, determined that some of the skin used for the Dead Sea scrolls came from the Nubian ibex, whose range did not include Jerusalem, but includes the Hermon and Golan heights, the Negev highlands and the western shore of the Dead Sea.

These habitats are more easily occupied where a small number of trees exist, or, in the case of desert species like the Gila Woodpecker, tall cacti are available for nesting in.

This exhibit was refurbished in 2007 and currently a walk-through aviary for African birds, Cold Blooded Corner, a reptile house housing rare species ' such as Gila Monster and Madagascan Tree Boa, a partula snail unit, chipmunk and lovebird aviaries, a toddler's play area, kiosk, and shop.

* Gila Gamliel ( born 1974 ), member of the Knesset for Likud and Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office

In 1922, Aldo Leopold, then a ranking member of the U. S. Forest Service, proposed a new management strategy for the Gila National Forest.

“ Prass Israel ” winner, actress and director Gila Almagor ( Salach Shabati, Hachayim al pi Agfa, Hakayitz shel Avia, Spielberg's Munich ), who hosted Itzik Kol ’ s memorial evening and worked with him since his days as general manager of the Cameri Theater, said at the occasion that aside for Kol's huge contribution to Israeli culture, he will be remembered for his unique persona.

He served an LDS mission from 1914 to 1916, then worked for various banks in Arizona's Gila Valley as a clerk and bank teller.

Hunt's first foray into politics was an unsuccessful 1890 run for county recorder of Gila County.

Except for the isolated range of the Gila Manroot ( M. gilensis ) in west-central Arizona and island populations ( M. macrocarpus var.

The family consists of a 33-year-old widowed wife, Clara, ( played by Gila Almagor, one of the most prominent actresses in Israel for the last three decades ) and her four children.

Most vegetation and animal life is typical for sandy deserts, scrub brush, reptiles ( including the Gila monster ) and small mammals.

The most ambitious effort to rectify the economic plight of the Akimel O ’ Odham was the San Carlos Project Act of 1924, which authorized the construction of a water storage dam on the Gila River and provided for the irrigation of of Indian and of non-Indian land.

For example, the Gila River – formerly one of the Colorado's largest tributaries – contributes little more than a trickle in most years due to use of its water by cities and farms in central Arizona.

The reservoir, with a maximum storage capacity of, has the potential to be the second largest reservoir completely within the borders of the state of Arizona, but because the Gila River and its main tributary, the Salt River, are generally almost always completely diverted for irrigation and municipal water use for Phoenix, the lake is often dry.

The easiest way across was to use the Gila River corridor.

The old seal was finally retired in 1879, however it is still in use by Gila County.

Among these may be mentioned: the Mazatzal Mountain region in Gila and Maricopa Counties, Arizona ; Red Feather Lakes, near Ft Collins, Colorado ; Amethyst Mountain, Texas ; Yellowstone National Park ; Delaware County, Pennsylvania ; Haywood County, North Carolina ; Deer Hill and Stow, Maine and in the Lake Superior region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario in Canada.

For example, in 1900 the Thicktail Chub ( Gila crassicauda ) was the most common freshwater fish found in California ; 70 years later not a single living individual existed anymore.

* Mazatzal Wilderness ( Tonto NF / Coconino NF ) partly in Gila County, AZ ; Maricopa County, AZ

They left Gila Bend in the winter of 1873-74 ; their work on canals and dams having been destroyed by high water the previous summer.

* 1936: Inkey ; On the Lam ; The Sole of the Matter ; The Gila Story ; Those Who are About to Die

Native groups observed living on the lower Colorado River, were, from north to south, the Amacava, Bahacecha, Osera, at the Gila River's junction with the Colorado in a location later occupied by the Quechan, Alebdoma ; seen by Oñate below the Gila junction but subsequently reported upstream from there, in the area where Oñate had encountered the, Coguana, or Kahwans, Agalle and Agalecquamaya, or Halyikwamai, and the Cocopah.

Notable vanadinite mines include those at Mibladen and Touisset in Morocco ; Tsumeb, Namibia ; Cordoba, Argentina ; and Sierra County, New Mexico, and Gila County, Arizona, in the United States.

He divided his forces into four commands: one, under Col. Sterling Price, appointed military governor, was to occupy and maintain order in New Mexico with his approximately 800 men ; a second group under Col. Alexander William Doniphan, with a little over 800 men was ordered to capture El Paso, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico and then join up with General John E. Wool ; the third command of about 300 dragoons mounted on mules, he led under his command to California along the Gila River trail.

Through the 1930s, surface flow on the Gila River was reduced to nothing, and the tribe suffers greatly due to loss of their river ; however, the BIA ignored water issues.

* Ida Redbird ( 1892-1971 )-Master potter of the Maricopa ; instrumental in the 1937-1940 Maricopa pottery revival ; first president of Maricopa Pottery Makers Association ; translator and informant for Leslie Spier ’ s Yuma Tribes of the Gila River, thus helping to preserve her American Indian heritage.

After gaining experience as a teamster along the Santa Fe Trail and in Mexico, Carson signed on with a party of forty men, led by Ewing Young which in August, 1829 went into Apache country along the Gila River.

The United States acquired the southwestern boot heel of the state and southern Arizona below the Gila river in the mostly desert Gadsden Purchase of 1853, which was related to the construction by the US of a transcontinental railroad.

The Gila Trail going along the Gila River in Arizona, across the Colorado River and then across the Sonora Desert in California was scouted by Stephen Kearny's troops and later by Captain Philip St. George Cooke's Mormon Battalion in 1846 who were the first to take a wagon the whole way.

Flood waters impounded by the dam periodically inundated approximately of the Tohono O ' odham's Gila Bend Reservation.

Of the 300, 000, approximately half arrived by sea and half came from the east overland on the California Trail and the Gila River trail.

* Bearwallow Mountain Lookout Cabins and Shed-Built in 1940 by the Works Progress Administration, they are one of three New Deal-era buildings in the Gila National Forest.

Safford was founded by Joshua Eaton Bailey, Hiram Kennedy and Edward Tuttle, who came from Gila Bend, in southwestern Arizona.

It is bordered to the north and west by Tempe, to the north by Mesa, to the west by Phoenix, to the south by the Gila River Indian Community, and to the east by Gilbert.

Gila Bend has an arid desert climate, characterized by extremely hot summers and warm winters.

When Father Eusebio Francisco Kino visited in 1699, the older site along fertile banks of the Gila River had been abandoned by another early tribe called the Opas, who instead used the river to irrigate their crops at a nearby rancheria.

The first extensive survey of the area was conducted by Gila Rangers who were pursuing Indians who had been raiding the Butterfield Overland Mail route and miners at Gila City.

The remainder of the Gila Valley pre-Purchase border area was traversed by the Arizona Eastern Railway by 1899 and the Copper Basin Railway by 1904.