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Arizona is located in the southwestern United States. Arizona’s landscape is one of great diversity. Sun-swept mountains and valleys, lofty plateaus, narrow canyons, and awesome stretches of desert make it one of the most beautiful states in the nation. This scenic beauty, coupled with an ideal climate, has made Arizona very popular with tourists. Manufacturing has become Arizona's most important industry. Arizona produces over half of the country's copper. A 2006 real estate survey has estimated the population of Arizona at 6,200,000.

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Ahwatukee click here

Ahwatukee is part of the Phoenix metropolitan region.

Anthem

Doreen Drew

Anthem Real Estate

Benson

Mary Scott

Benson Real Estate

Bisbee

Charles M. Sotelo, Owner/Broker

E-mail: vallerealty@cybertrails.com

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Bullhead City

Betty Moir
RE/MAX at the River, Inc.
Phone: 928-763-9000

Serving the Colorado River Valley, including Bullhead City, Fort Mohave, Mohave Valley. On the Colorado River, minutes from Laughlin, & Lake Mohave.

Carefree click here

Carefree is located in Central Arizona, 30 miles northeast of Phoenix. The Tonto National Forest borders the town to the north and the east, to the south lies the Sonoran Desert.

Casa Grande

Linda England
Pinal County Agents
Phone: 877-538-9833

Casa Grande Real Estate
Casa Grande AZ real estate agent representation for buyers and sellers.

Chandler click here

Chandler is located in the Phoenix metropolitan region. Chandler lies in an irrigated farming region and has an economy based on high-technology manufacturing, agriculture, and tourism.

Fort Mohave

Betty Kerr, GRI, CRS

E-mail: BettyKerr@citlink.net

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Gilbert click here

Gilbert has experienced a rapid transition from a historically agriculture-based community to an urban center and suburb in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.

Glendale click here

Glendale is located in central Arizona. The city has a diversified economy that includes aerospace, communications, precision metalworking, chemical and electronic manufacturing, and warehousing industries.

Golden Valley

Jeri Feneis

E-mail: rlstldy@citlink.net

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Kingman

Pamela Bender

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Lake Havasu City

Craig Schoonover

Lake Havasu City Real Estate

Lakeside

Paul Moro

Lakeside Real Estate

Marana

Bob Burke

E-mail: sales@heritagehighlands.net

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Mesa click here

Mesa is part of the Phoenix-Mesa metropolitan region. It is a commercial, manufacturing, agricultural, and tourist center; products include electronic equipment, processed food, aerospace equipment, automobile airbags, and heavy machinery.

Mohave Valley

Betty Kerr, GRI, CRS

E-mail: BettyKerr@citlink.net

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Paradise Valley click here

Paradise Valley is located between Carefree and Scottsdale. It is part of the Phoenix metropolitan region.

Pearce click here

Pearce is located in Cochise County southeast of Tucson between Willcox and Douglas along Highway 666 near the Coronado National Forest. Many consider Pearce just a ghost town, but the area around Pearce is growing. Many small communities are springing up and Pearce seems to be on its way back.

Peoria click here

Peoria is in Central Arizona, it is part of the Phoenix metropolitan region. Peoria is bordered by Glendale and Sun City.

Phoenix click here

Phoenix is located on the Salt River in the south central part of Arizona. Phoenix sits on the eastern edge of the Sonoran Desert. A commercial, manufacturing, financial, tourist, and retirement center, Phoenix serves as a distribution point for the agricultural products of the irrigated Salt River Valley.

Prescott

Thomas Catanzarite

Prescott Valley Real Estate

Scottsdale click here

Scottsdale is a popular winter resort and an arts and crafts center; some electronic equipment also is manufactured. Scottsdale is noted for its efforts to preserve desert environments within the city.

Snowflake

Joel Lawson

E-mail: jhawso31@cybertrails.com

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Sunsites click here

Sunsites is located in Southeast Arizona in Chochise County with high desert vegetation of rolling grassland and yuccas. Sunsites is on the west side of the Sulphur Springs Valley, nestled close to the Dragoon Mountains.

Tempe click here

Tempe is located in central Arizona, on the Salt River. It is part of the Phoenix metropolitan region.

Tucson click here

Tucson is located on the Santa Cruz River. Situated in a high desert valley and surrounded by mountains, the city’s dry, sunny climate has contributed to its growth as a tourist, retirement, and health center. The city also has an expanding industrial economy based on the manufacture of optical, aerospace, and electronic equipment.

More about Arizona

Water in Arizona has always been in high demand for residential, industrial, agricultural, and recreational uses. Unforgiving climatic conditions forced even the earliest residents to engineer irrigation systems for their crops and dwellings. Cities, mining towns, and cattle ranches that relied on drawing water from underground, including from deep artesian wells, have been depleting that resource since the mid-1940s. The 1980 Groundwater Management Act established the Department of Water Resources, which enforces mandated water conservation in the central part of the state where groundwater levels were dropping. Municipal and industrial pumpers as well as ranchers employ a variety of conservation methods to conserve groundwater, including using more efficient plumbing to prevent leaks and changes in farming methods to use less water for irrigation. The state has also established restrictions on groundwater pumping in the state’s most populated areas. Other organizations are using, where possible, lower-quality waters, such as effluent, to conserve supplies of high-quality surface and groundwater. This dependable and growing supply increasingly is used to irrigate non-food crops, golf courses, parks and school yards, and in industrial cooling towers.

Arizona’s most productive agricultural areas are the basins of the Salt and Gila rivers and certain valleys in the southeast. One of these is Sulphur Springs Valley, which extends for about 85 mi from the southern part of Graham County through Cochise County to the Mexican border.

Cotton is the most valuable crop. Arizona is one of the leading cotton-producing states in the nation. Vegetables, including lettuce, cantaloupes, broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, onions, and carrots, are widely grown in the desert oases. The year-round warm climate in parts of Arizona has enabled the state to become a major winter supplier of fresh vegetables for colder parts of the United States. Lemons are another important product, and miles of orange, grapefruit, and tangerine groves brighten the desert landscape. Other principal crops are wheat, hay, melons, barley, corn, and grapes.

The sale of cattle and calves now accounts for the largest single source of the annual revenues of Arizonan farmers and ranchers. Most of the land that is used for grazing cattle is owned by the federal government, and its use is regulated. The cattle are not Texas Longhorns, but Herefords or Aberdeen Angus, and their range pasture feed is usually supplemented in winter by alfalfa grown on the irrigated lands of central Arizona.

Because forest conservation started early in Arizona, and because nearly all the forests are government owned, indiscriminate cutting has been largely avoided. The main forest area is in the northeast. Commercial timber, a relatively small industry, occurs mostly on the plateaus between 2,000 and 3,000 m (6,500 and 10,000 ft), where it is fairly accessible for logging. The main species that are cut are ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, and several varieties of oak.

The chief minerals produced, by value, are copper, coal, sand and gravel, lime, and cement. Arizona is the leading state in copper production in the United States, and also leads the nation in production of molybdenum, which is produced in conjunction with copper mining. Arizona is the country’s second largest producer of perlite, a volcanic glass, which, when expanded by heat, forms an aggregate used in plaster and is added to the soil of potted plants. Arizona ranks fourth among the states in the production of silver.

Manufacturing is a relative newcomer to the economy of Arizona, but since 1950 it has become one of the state’s major sources of income, rivaling the five C’s—cattle, copper, cotton, citrus, and climate—on which the state’s economy previously depended. Because of military needs, and the shift of the nation’s defense from coastal to inland areas during World War II, many new manufacturing plants, especially aluminum plants, were established. After the war, these plants were converted to peace-time production, and numerous other factories were opened. Older industries, such as food processing, cotton ginning, meatpacking, and the production of primary metals, expanded during the 1950s and 1960s. The greatest industrial growth, however, was in the electronics and aviation fields, centered chiefly in the Phoenix and Tucson areas.

In the late 1990s the leading manufacturers were firms engaged in the production of electronic and electric equipment, particularly semiconductors, radios and televisions, and printed circuit boards; manufacturers of transportation equipment, primarily aircraft and aircraft parts, guided missiles, and vehicles used in space; and the makers of instruments and related equipment. Other leading manufacturers included food processors, firms making primary metal products, and printers and publishers.

Steam plants powered by fossil fuels, mainly coal, generated 52 percent of Arizona’s electricity in 1999. Three nuclear power plants at Palo Verde, west of Phoenix, generated another 36 percent, and the rest of the electricity generated came from hydroelectric facilities.

Tourism is a major industry in Arizona. Long before Arizona became a state, its spectacular scenery and climate attracted tourists. Facilities include many guest or dude ranches, where the visitor can experience the outdoor life of the West. The Grand Canyon is one of the major tourist attractions and among the most frequently visited national parks in the nation.

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