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Arizona
Flash floods, monsoons, and winter storms cause a great deal of water damage in Arizona. However, natural events aren’t the only cause of flooding in Arizona. Overflowing plumbing and other mishaps are a major source of water damage restoration calls. Dryout’s Arizona affiliates can help no matter where you are from the top of Flagstaff Mountain to the suburbs of Phoenix.
Please use the following link to
access the Arizona state insurance
office.
Arizona enjoyed admission to statehood
on February
14, 1912. The Capital city is
Pheonix.
Here is a link that you may find
helpful when researching Arizona:
http://ebr.bpa.arizona.edu/library/Helpfullinks.htm
Some interesting facts about Arizona
are:
- Arizona is a right-to-work
state. The law states no person
shall be denied the opportunity
to obtain or retain employment
because of non-membership in a
labor organization.
- The Arizona trout is found
only in the Arizona.
- The saguaro cactus blossom
is the official state flower.
The white flower blooms on the
tips of the saguaro cactus during
May and June. The saguaro is the
largest American cactus.
- Arizona leads the nation in
copper production.
- Petrified wood is the official
state fossil. Most petrified wood
comes from the Petrified Forest
in northeastern Arizona.
- The bola tie is the official
state neckwear.
- The Palo verde is the official
state tree. Its name means green
stick and it blooms a brilliant
yellow-gold in April or May.
- The cactus wren is the official
state bird. It grows seven to
eight inches long and likes to
build nests in the protection
of thorny desert plants like the
arms of the giant saguaro cactus.
- Turquoise is the official state
gemstone. The blue-green stone
has a somewhat waxy surface and
can be found throughout the state.
- Arizona is home of the Grand
Canyon National Park.
- The ringtail is the official
state mammal. The ringtail is
a small fox-like animal about
two and one-half feet long and
is a shy, nocturnal creature.
- The amount of copper on the
roof of the Capitol building is
equivalent to 4,800,000 pennies.
- Arizona observes Mountain Standard
Time on a year round basis. The
one exception is the Navajo Nation,
located in the northeast corner
of the state, which observes the
daylight savings time change.
- The battleship USS Arizona
was named in honor of the state.
It was commissioned in 1913 and
launched in 1915 from the Brooklyn
Navy Yard.
- World War II brought many military
personnel to train at Luke and
Thunderbird fields in Glendale.
- The Castilian and Burgundian
flags of Spain, the Mexican flag,
the Confederate flag, and the
flag of the United States have
all flown over the land area that
has become Arizona.
- In 1926, the Southern Pacific
Railroad connected Arizona with
the eastern states.
- The geographic center of Arizona
is 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast
of Prescott.
- Arizona's most abundant mineral
is copper.
- Bisbee, located in Tombstone
Canyon, is known as the Queen
of the Copper Mines. During its
mining history the town was the
largest city between Saint Louis
and San Francisco.
- The state's most popular natural
wonders include the Grand Canyon,
Havasu Canyon, Grand Canyon Caves,
Lake Powell/Rainbow Bridge, Petrified
Forest/Painted Desert, Monument
Valley, Sunset Crater, Meteor
Crater, Sedona Oak Creek Canyon,
Salt River Canyon, Superstition
Mountains, Picacho Peak State
Park, Saguaro National Park, Chiricahua
National Monument, and the Colorado
River.
- The Arizona tree frog is the
state official amphibian. The
frog is actually between three-quarter
to two inches long.
- Once a rowdy copper mining
town, Jerome's population dwindled
to as few as 50 people after the
mines closed in 1953.
- The original London Bridge
was shipped stone-by-stone and
reconstructed in Lake Havasu City.
- The capital of the Navajo Reservation
is Window Rock.
- The state's precipitation varies.
At Flagstaff the annual average
is 18.31 inches; Phoenix averages
7.64 inches; and Yuma's annual
average is 3.27 inches.
- Crops include 2%; pastureland
57%; forests 24%; and other uses
are 17% in land-use designation.
- The Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake
is perhaps the most beautiful
of all eleven species of rattlesnakes
found in Arizona.
- The colors blue and gold are
the official state colors.
- Located in Fountain Hills is
a fountain believed to be the
tallest in the world.
- Four Corners is noted as the
spot in the United States where
a person can stand in four states
at the same time.
- The age of a saguaro cactus
is determined by its height.
- The Apache trout is considered
a threatened species under the
federal Endangered Species Act.
- Arizona, among all the states,
has the largest percentage of
its land set aside and designated
as Indian lands.
- Rising to a height of 12,643
feet, Mount Humphreys north of
Flagstaff is the state's highest
mountain.
- The Hopi Indians of Arizona
are noted for growing their multicolored
corn.
- Barry Goldwater, a famous public
official, senator, and presidential
candidate was born in Phoenix.
- In 1939 architect Frank Lloyd
Wright's studio, Taliesin West,
was built near Phoenix.
- Oraibi is the oldest Indian
settlement in the United States.
The Hopis Indians founded it.
- Grand Canyon's Flaming Gorge
got its name for its blazing red
and orange colored, twelve-hundred-foot-high
walls.
- Grand Canyon's Disaster Falls
was named to commemorate the site
of a previous explorer's wreck.
- Grand Canyon's Marble Canyon
got its name from its thousand-foot-thick
seam of marble and for its walls
eroded to a polished glass finish.
- Arizona became the 48th state
on February 14, 1912.
- The world's largest solar telescope
is located at Kitts Peak National
Observatory in the city of Sells.
- At one time camels were used
to transport goods across Arizona.
- Between the years 1692 and
1711 Father Eusebio Kino focused
on area missionary work. During
the time many grain and stock
farms began.
- A person from Arizona is called
an Arizonan.
- Phoenix originated in 1866
as a hay camp to supply Camp McDowell.
- The famous labor leader, Ceasar
Estrada Chavez, was born in Yuma.
- Tombstone, Ruby, Gillette,
and Gunsight are among the ghost
towns scattered throughout the
state.
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