This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.

In November 2010, Ferrigno was sworn in as a member of a Maricopa County, Arizona volunteer sheriff posse, which also includes actors Steven Seagal and Peter Lupus, in order to help control illegal immigration in the Phoenix Valley area.

The county was formed from parts of Maricopa County and Pinal County on February 8, 1881.

Pinal County was carved out of neighboring Maricopa County and Pima County on February 1, 1875.

From 1857, Gila Ranch was a stagecoach stop on the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line and the later more famous Butterfield Overland Mail route to California located 17 miles from Murderer's Grave Station to the west and 40 miles east of Maricopa Wells Station.

It was called Maricopa Wells.

Maricopa Wells was one of the most important relay stations along the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line and the later more famous Butterfield Overland Mail Route during the 1800s.

It was one of the best known spots in Arizona during this period of time because it not only had a reliable source of water, but offered an abundance of food thanks to the peaceful Pima and Maricopa farmers who lived and farmed nearby.

The most prosperous period of time for Maricopa Wells was in the 1870s.

Fairly good roads had been built by James A. Moore, the proprietor at Maricopa Wells, to all points north and the Wells was a constant hubbub of activity.

It was moved three miles to the east to its present location of Maricopa in the early 1880s, and began its life as a famous railroad junction when the first M & P train left Maricopa for Phoenix on July 4, 1887.

In the story, Maricopa was referred to as the " poster child of the housing crisis.

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

The racial makeup of Maricopa was 958 ( 83. 0 %) White, 1 ( 0. 1 %) African American, 27 ( 2. 3 %) Native American, 16 ( 1. 4 %) Asian, 2 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 112 ( 9. 7 %) from other races, and 38 ( 3. 3 %) from two or more races.

Maricopa Fire Department was established in 1910 with Chief F. W. Ball serving as the first fire chief.

Maricopa Hospital opened on 22 April 1911 and the city was incorporated on July 25, 1911.

Ronstadt stated that her " dog in the fight " was — as a native Arizonan and coming from a law enforcement family — the treatment of illegal aliens, Arizona's enforcement of its anti-immigrant law and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration efforts.

* DMX was arrested in Maricopa County, Arizona on November 19, 2010, on charges of violating his probation by consuming alcohol ( at a performance ).

Robbins was born in Glendale, a suburb of Phoenix, in Maricopa County, Arizona.

The issue was so controversial and divisive that in August 1997, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox was shot and injured while leaving a county board meeting by Larry Naman, a homeless man, who attempted to argue in court that her support for the tax justified his attack.

In 1976, Pastor was elected to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, and he served three terms in that role as a county executive.

The subject of these bills included a request to grant Arizona Territory another justice for the Territorial Supreme Court, authorization for Maricopa county to issue bonds, twenty bills providing financial reimbursement for losses suffered due to Civil War actions and Indian depredations, and six bills that would grant right of way to railroads and water companies to cross Indian reservations.

Flagstaff in Coconino County is a major highway junction, with Interstate 40 extending to the east and the west ( connecting with Williams and Winslow, Arizona, for example ), and with Interstate 17 extending south from Flagstaff to Phoenix and Maricopa County.

Located primarily in Maricopa County, it is a major suburb of Phoenix.

The Arizona Canal is a major canal in central Maricopa County that led to the founding of several communities, now among the wealthier neighborhoods of suburban Phoenix, in the late 1880s.

New River is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.

As reported in the Los Angeles Times on July 4, 2011, the Maricopa Police Department has become embroiled in a local controversy playing out through large signs posted on the city's main thoroughfare.

They filed Peoria ’ s plot map with the Maricopa County recorder on May 24, 1897, naming the settlement after their hometown.

Maricopa County supervisors defined the boundaries for School District Eleven, comprising forty-nine square miles, and the first class took place in an unoccupied brick store that faced north on Washington Street until Peoria ’ s first school building, a one-room structure completed in 1891.

It is technically the largest incorporated city in Yavapai County even though almost all of Peoria ’ s current population resides on the Maricopa side.

Many Pima and Maricopa people continue to reside on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, which borders Scottsdale directly to the east.

California Zephyr railcar at the Maricopa, AZ Amtrak stationMaricopa is currently the closest stop from Phoenix on Amtrak's Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle trains.

There are 10 citizen advisory groups that guide the Maricopa City Council on a myriad of activity.

Currently housed in an interim City Hall, the City of Maricopa will break ground on its first permanent structure on April 21, 2012.

Maricopa is in the extreme southwestern corner of the San Joaquin Valley, on the first rise of land into the foothills of the Coast Ranges, with the Temblor Mountains, following the San Andreas Fault, trending northwest of town, and the San Emigdio Mountains to the southeast.

* St. Mary's Church-Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, Tempe, listed on the NRHP in Maricopa County, Arizona

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community ( SRPMIC ) was established on June 14, 1879 and is made of two very distinct Native American tribes: The Pima and the Maricopa.

In April 1921 the eight LDS troops in the Maricopa ( LDS ) Stake and the Methodist troop met in at the Coffee Cup in Mesa to organize the Apache Council.

In April 2010 the Board of Supervisors appointed him as Interim Maricopa County Attorney when Andrew Thomas resigned from that position to run for the office of Attorney General of Arizona making him only the 3rd interim ever since 1912 following Donald Harris in 1976 and Phil MacDonnell ( Andrew Thomas ' Chief Deputy ) in 2010.

* Wickenburg ( most of Wickenburg is in Maricopa County ) 6, 363

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

* $ 6. 67 million from Maricopa County Stadium District ( MCSD ) funds forwarded to AZSTA by the MCSD ;

Chris Simcox arrived at a Maricopa County Courthouse to have himself served on July 6, 2010.