Maricopa County, Arizona |
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 In downtown Phoenix |
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Cities & Towns:
Avondale Buckeye Carefree Cave Creek Chandler El Mirage Fountain Hills Gila Bend Gilbert Glendale Goodyear Guadalupe Litchfield Park Mesa Paradise Valley Peoria Phoenix Queen Creek Scottsdale Surprise Tempe Tolleson Wickenburg Youngtown Maricopa County is in central Arizona and includes the greater part of the Phoenix metroplex. Maricopa County contains 9,203 square miles of land and 21 square miles of water. Maricopa County is the 4th most populous county in the United States. There are 12 Indian Reservations in the county. The county seat is Phoenix. Update, 2009: For the first time since Europeans began settling in the area, Maricopa County appears to be losing population as a direct result of the global financial crisis, a crisis brought about by many of the very bankers, developers, investment advisers and mortgage brokers who call Maricopa County "home." Foreclosures are rampant as the local economy contracts. It also doesn't help matters that many of the local jobs in the large financial institutions that used to run major operations in Phoenix have shifted large portions of their business overseas (that move often paid for with money derived from the taxpayer's bailout of those same institutions). |
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 A Landsat image of the Phoenix Metro area |
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| Other Maricopa County Related Pages: Tonto National Forest - Four Peaks Wilderness - Superstition Wilderness Harquahala Mountains Wilderness - Big Horn Mountains Wilderness Hummingbird Springs Wilderness - Signal Mountain Wilderness Mazatzal Wilderness - Woolsey Peak Wilderness - Sierra Estrella Wilderness North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness - South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness Joshua Forest Scenic Byway - Harquahala Mountains Back Country Byway Apache Trail Historic Road - Sonoran Desert National Monument |
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| Photo of downtown Phoenix courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management Satellite view of the Phoenix Metro area courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory. Text is available for re-use under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. |
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