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The amount of copper on the roof of the Capitol building is equivalent to 4,800,000 pennies.
The Arizona trout is found only in the Arizona.
Wyatt Earp was neither the town marshal nor the sheriff in Tombstone, Arizona at the time of the shoot-out at the O.K. Corral. His brother Virgil was the town marshal, who had temporarily deputized Wyatt, Morgan and Doc Holliday prior to the gunfight.
In Arizona, it is against the law for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs.
Arizona leads the nation in copper production.
Petrified wood is the official state fossil. Most petrified wood comes from the
A class 2 misdemeanor occurs if one places a mark upon a flag which is "likely to provoke physical retaliation".
The bola tie is the official state neckwear.
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.
In Arizona, it is unlawful to refuse a person a glass of water.
The Castilian and Burgundian flags of
In
In 1926, the Southern Pacific Railroad connected Arizona with the eastern states.
The geographic center of Arizona is 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of
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
When being attacked by a criminal or burglar, you may only protect yourself with the same weapon that the other person possesses.
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.
No one is permitted to ride their horse up the stairs of the county court house in
Once a rowdy copper mining town, Jerome's population dwindled to as few as 50 people after the mines closed in 1953.
The capital of the Navajo Reservation is Window Rock.
Located in Fountain Hills is a fountain believed to be the tallest in the world.
The age of a saguaro cactus is determined by its height.
Arizona, among all the states, has the largest percentage of its land set aside and designated as Indian lands.
Oraibi is the oldest Indian settlement in the
Grand Canyon's Flaming Gorge got its name for its blazing red and orange colored, twelve-hundred-foot-high walls.
There are 11.2 million acres of National Forest in Arizona and one fourth of the state is forested. The largest forest is comprised of Ponderosa Pine.
It is illegal to manufacture imitation cocaine.
The largest freshwater striped bass caught in Arizona was at
Any misdemeanor committed while wearing a red mask is considered a felony.
The original
In Globe, Arizona Cards may not be played in the street with a Native American.
The famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral did NOT occur at the O.K. Corral. When the Earps and the Clantons shot it out in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881, their famous battle took place in a vacant lot between Fly�s Photograph Gallery and the Harwood house on Tombstone�s
Mattie Earp, Wyatt Earp�s second wife, who was with him in Tombstone during the O.K. Corral gunfight committed suicide with an overdose of laudanum on July 3, 1888 in Pinal, Arizona. She was despondent because Earp had left her for another woman.
Arizona became the 48th state on February 14, 1912.
The world's largest solar telescope is located at
At one time camels were used to transport goods across Arizona.
One must be 18 years old to buy spray paint in
Tombstone, Ruby, Gillette, and Gunsight are among the ghost towns scattered throughout the state.
The
Navajo Community College in Tsaile, was the first college on an Indian reservation.
There is a possible 25 years in prison for cutting down a cactus.
Arizona is roughly the size of
Arizona has more parks and national monuments than any other state, more mountains than Switzerland, and more golf courses than
The famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral only lasted about thirty seconds.
The hottest recorded day in
The Saguaro Cactus blossom is the official state flower of Arizona. The white, funnel shaped, night blooming flowers, grow on the trunk and branches of the saguaro cactus during May and June. The red fruits of this largest American cactus are edible.
It is illegal in
In World War II, many Navajos enlisted as secret agents. Our enemies could never understand the Navajo language to learn our military secrets.
If you bother the cottontails or bullfrogs, in
The sun shines in southern Arizona 85% of the time, which is considerably more sunshine than
In 1876 the Chiricahua Apache chief Geronimo began ten years of raids against white settlements when the U.S. government attempted to move his tribe from their traditional home in Arizona to a reservation in New Mexico.
The Navajo Reservation, the nation's largest reservation, lies primarily in Arizona.
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
It snowed 400.9 inches during the winter of 1972-1973 at
Arizona Highways has an approximately 85% circulation rate outside of the state of Arizona.
Don't believe everything you hear. Legend has it that the barrel cactus is a good source of water in the desert. Well, you can try it, but you won't like it. The pulp can be crushed to create a liquid, but the juice would peel the hide off a Gila Monster.
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
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
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