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The history of Phoenix, Arizona, goes back millennia, beginning with nomadic paleo-Indians who existed in the Americas in general, and the Salt River Valley in particular, about 7,000 BC until about 6,000 BC. Mammoths were the primary prey of hunters.
Phoenix officially was recognized on May 4, 1868, when the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors, the county of which we were then a part, formed an election precinct here. A post office was established in Phoenix on June 15, 1868, with Jack Swilling as postmaster.
Around 1895, J.C. Adams, an attorney from Chicago, settled in Phoenix. He saw the potential of Phoenix, as a lot of people did, and built a massive hotel—The Adams hotel. Phoenix was still just a little town—all dirt roads, no pavement, and it had a trolley car.
Maricopa County grew by 711% from 186,000 in 1940 to 1,509,000 by 1980, due in part to air conditioning, cheap housing, and an influx of retirees. The once "modest urban sprawl" now "grew by 'epic' proportions—not only a myriad of residential tract developments on both farmland and desert."
Phoenix, city, seat (1871) of Maricopa county and capital of Arizona, U.S. It lies along the Salt River in the south-central part of the state, about 120 miles (190 km) north of the Mexico border and midway between El Paso, Texas, and Los Angeles, California. The Salt River valley, popularly called.
Phoenix, Arizona, an agricultural community near the junction of the Salt and Gila Rivers, was founded in 1867. It became the capital of Arizona Territory in 1889. Phoenix rapidly evolved into a farming and commerce center in the desert Southwest.
Phoenix, City (pop., 2020: 1,608,139), capital of Arizona, U.S. It is located on the Salt River. The river valley was occupied as early as 1300 ce by the Hohokam culture, which disappeared in the early 15th century. A village was founded on the site in 1867 and incorporated as a city in 1881.
The Arizona Territory passes a law allowing cities, including Phoenix, to annex land surrounding the city, as long as it obtained the permission of the inhabitants of that area. 1894 Orangedale (later called Scottsdale) is founded by Winfield Scott.
In 1912, Phoenix became the capital of the newly formed state of Arizona. Phoenix was considered preferable as both territorial and state capital due to its more central location compared to Tucson or Prescott.
When Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, was founded, its first settlers named it after a mythical beast that rises from the ashes, reflecting their hopes for the city that they rescued from decay by rebuilding a network of abandoned irrigation canals.