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Phoenix Weather Info

Phoenix weather is often desert like. The city is very dry and hot, averaging only eight inches of rain each year with temperatures reaching well into the 100’s for many days at a time during the summer months.

A distinguishing characteristic of Phoenix weather is the fact that nearly 325 days of the year features sunshine, making Phoenix a great vacation destination and one of the sunniest cities in the U.S.

From Legands of America.com

The sun shines in southern Arizona 85% of the time, which is considerably more sunshine than Florida or Hawaii. high country.


The Navajo Reservation, the nation's largest reservation, lies primarily in Arizona and extends into Utah and New Mexico .


In Tombstone it is illegal for men and women over the age of 18 to have less than one missing tooth visible when smiling.


In Glendale, Arizona cars may not be driven in reverse.


It snowed 400.9 inches during the winter of 1972-1973 at Sunrise Mountain.


Arizona Highways has an approximately 85% circulation rate outside of the state of Arizona.


It is illegal to hunt camels in the State of Arizona.


Arizona once had a navy consisting of two boats on the Colorado River. They were used to prevent California from encroaching on Arizona territory.


A saguaro cactus will take between 50 and 100 years to grow an arm. The saguaro cactus flower is the official state flower of Arizona.


An ordinance prohibits the wearing of suspenders in Nogales, Arizona.


Learn more Arizona fun facts at LegendsOfAmerica.com
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 From 50 States.com

  • 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.

    • A person from AZ. is called an Arizonan.

    Learn more about Arizona at 50States.com

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    Facts about Arizona
     
    Year of Statehood:
    1912
    Population:
    6,338,755 (2007 estimate)
    State Capitol:
    Phoenix
    State Motto:
    Ditat Deus (God Enriches)
    Largest City:
    Phoenix
    State Nickname:
    Grand Canyon State
    State Size:
    113,909 square miles
    State Flag:
    The lower half of the flag is a blue field, the upper half divided into thirteen equal segments, six light yellow and seven red. In the center of the flag is a copper-colored five-point star. The red and the blue are the same shades as the flag of the United States of America, and it measures four feet high and six feet wide. The flag was designed by Charles W. Harris and first sewn by Nan D. Hayden. Blue and yellow are the Arizona colors, and red and yellow the colors of the Spanish Conquistadores headed by Coronado who first came to Arizona in 1540. The copper star represents Arizona as the largest producer of copper in the nation.

    State Seal:
    Arizona's main enterprises and attractions are represented in the seal. In the background of the seal is a range of mountains with the sun rising behind the peaks. At the right side of the mountains is a water storage reservoir and a dam, with irrigated fields and orchards. There are cattle grazing on the right, and a quartz mill and a miner with a pick and shovel on the left.
    State Songs:
    “Arizona March Song“ and “Arizona"
    State Flower:
    Blossom of the Saguaro cactus.  This pure white flower blooms on the tips of the saguaro cactus during May and June
    State Gem:
    Turquoise. It's a blue-green, waxy-surfaced stone used for centuries in Southwest Indian Jewelry. It can be found throughout the Southwest and is composed of hydrous oxide of aluminum and copper.
    Official Neckwear:
    Bola Tie. It originated in Arizona and is usually made by silversmiths and leather makers in almost every size and shape, most often with silver and turquoise.
    State Tree:
    Palo Verde. Its name means “green stick.“
    It blooms a brilliant yellow-gold in April or May.
    State Bird:
    Cactus Wren. It measures 7 to 8 inches in length, and its back is brown with white spots, and its throat is lighter colored with black spots. Its bill is curved down and there's a white line over each eye. Cactus wrens eat insects, seeds, and fruit. They often build their nests inside a cactus to protect them from predators.
    State Fossil:
    Petrified Wood
    State Mammal:
    Ringtail
    State Reptile:
    Arizona Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake
    State Fish:
    Apache Trout  
    State Amphibian:
    Arizona Tree frog




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