Ajo, Arizona
Location in Pima County and the state of Arizona
Coordinates: 32°22′53″N 112°52′10″W / 32.38139, -112.86944
Country	United States
State	Arizona
County	Pima
Area
- Total	28. Pima County is a county in the south central region of the US The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The political units and divisions of the United States include The 50 states (four of these being officially styled as Commonwealths) which are typically The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. This is a list of counties in Arizona. There are 15 counties in the U Pima County is a county in the south central region of the US Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 1 sq mi (72. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. 7 km²)
- Land	28. To help compare different Orders of magnitude and geographical regions we list here areas between 100 km² and 1000 km² 1 sq mi (72. 7 km²)
- Water	0. 0 sq mi (0. 0 km²)
Elevation	1,759 ft (536 m)
Population (2000)
- Total	3,705
- Density	131. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 9/sq mi (51. 0/km²)
Time zone	MST (no daylight saving time) (UTC-7)
ZIP code	85321
Area code(s)	520
FIPS code	04-00870
GNIS feature ID	0000538

Ajo is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pima County, Arizona, United States. The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC-7) during the shortest days of autumn Daylight saving time ( DST UTC−7 can be observed in Mountain Standard Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time Zone Canada The ZIP code is the system of Postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks ImageArea_code_520png|right|Map of Arizona area codes in blue (and border states with 520 in redpoly 0 0 73 58 14 59 14 100 0 90 Area code 775 poly 73 58 68 92 64 92 58 Federal Information Processing Standards ( FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States Federal government for use by all non-military The Geographic Names Information System ( GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout A census-designated place ( CDP) is a type of place (a concentration of population identified by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes Pima County is a county in the south central region of the US The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The population was 3,705 at the 2000 census. Ajo is located on Arizona Highway 85 just 43 miles from the Mexican border. It is the closest town to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is a US National Monument located in extreme southern

Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Demographics 4 Schools 5 References 6 External links

History

Ajo (pronounced ah-ho) is the Spanish word for garlic. Allium sativum L, commonly known as garlic, is a species in the Onion family Alliaceae. The Spanish may have named the place using the familiar word in place of the similar-sounding O'odham word for paint (oʼoho). O'odham (/ɔʔɔdham/ is an Uto-Aztecan language of southern Arizona and northern Sonora where the Tohono O'odham and Pima reside The Tohono O'odham people obtained red paint pigments from the area. The Tohono O'odham, also known as the Papago, are a group of aboriginal Americans who reside primarily in the Sonoran Desert of the southwest For the drug referred to as "pigment" see Black tar heroin.

Native Americans, Spaniards and Americans have all extracted mineral wealth from Ajo's abundant ore deposits. Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An ore is a volume of rock containing components or Minerals in a mode of occurrence that renders it valuable for mining In the early nineteenth century, there was a Spanish mine nicknamed "Old Bat Hole". The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Mining is the extraction of valuable Minerals or other geological materials from the earth usually (but not always from an Ore body It was later abandoned due to Indian raids. The first Anglo in Ajo, Tom Childs, on the way to the silver mines near Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, arrived in 1847 and found the deserted mine complete with a 60-foot shaft, mesquite ladders, and rawhide buckets. The term Anglo is used as a prefix to indicate a relation to the Angles, England or the English people, as in the phrases ' Anglo-Saxon ' ' Tom Childs, whom the Papago knew as "Muta" ("Woodpecker's nest inside of a Saguaro " was born in Yuma Arizona, United States Magdalena de Kino is a city and surrounding municipality located in the Mexican state of Sonora. Mesquite (from Nahuatl mizquitl) is a leguminous plant of the Prosopis genus found in Northern Mexico and the United Rawhide is a hide or animal skin that has not been exposed to Tanning. High-grade native copper made Ajo the first copper mine in Arizona. Copper (ˈkɒpɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol Cu (cuprum and Atomic number 29 The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. Soon the Arizona Mining & Trading company, formed by Peter M. Brady, a friend of Childs, worked the rich surface ores, shipping loads around Cape Horn for smelting in Swansea, Wales, in the mid 1880s. Cabo de Hornos redirects here for the Chilean commune see Cabo de Hornos Chile. Swansea ( Abertawe "mouth of the Tawe " is a city and county in Wales. The mine closed when a ship sank off the coast of Patagonia. Llao LLaojpg|thumb|250px| Lake Nahuel Huapi, near Bariloche, Argentina Long supply lines and the lack of water discouraged large mining companies

With the advent of new recovery methods for low-grade ore, Ajo boomed. A boomtown is a Community that experiences sudden and rapid population and Economic growth. In 1911, Col. John Campbell Greenway, a Rough Rider and star Yale athlete, bought the New Cornelia Copper from John Boddie. John Campbell Greenway ( July 6, 1872 – January 19, 1926) was an American mining steel and railroad executive a man of many trades in many The Rough Riders was the name bestowed by the American press on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the Spanish-American War He became general manager of the Calumet and the Arizona mining company and expanded it on a grand scale. In 1921, Phelps Dodge, the nation's largest copper company, bought New Cornelia and the mine became the New Cornelia Branch of Phelps Dodge, managed by Michael Curley. Phelps Dodge Corporation is a former United States company founded in 1834 by Anson Greene Phelps and William E For several decades more than 1,000 men worked for Phelps Dodge in the open pit mine. Open-pit mining, also known as opencast mining and open-cut mining and strip mining, refers to a method of extracting rock or Minerals The mine closed in 1985, following a bitter strike and a depressed copper market. The Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983 began as a bargaining dispute between the Phelps Dodge Corporation and a group of union copper miners. Ajo is now home to many retired people, Border Patrol agents, and young families. The United States Border Patrol is a federal law enforcement agency within U

Plants of the Sonoran Desert thrive at Ajo, including saguaros and ocotillos. The Sonoran Desert (sometimes called the Gila Desert after the Gila River or the Low Desert in opposition to the higher Mojave Desert) is The Saguaro, pronounced "sah-wah-roh" ( Carnegiea gigantea) is a large tree-sized Cactus Species in the Monotypic genus The ocotillo ( Fouquieria splendens - also called the coachwhip, Jacob's staff, and the vine cactus) is a curious and unique The Ajo lily or Desert lily, an onion-like plant, also grows in the area. Hesperocallis is a Genus of Flowering plants that includes a single species Hesperocallis undulata, the desert lily

Ajo and the surrounding area is the only place in the United States where the mineral papagoite can be found. Papagoite is a rare cyclosilicate Mineral. Chemically it is a Calcium Copper Aluminium Silicate Hydroxide

"In the year 1884, the camp at Ajo was practically abandoned. Not a soul was in camp when Tom Childs Sr. , and his son arrived. With them was Washington Michael Jacobs of Tucson, Arizona. Washington Michael Jacobs ( August 29, 1828 — May 23, 1899) was born in Balford, South Carolina to Ann Baldwin Jacobs Tucson (ˈtuːsɒn is the seat of Pima County Arizona, United States, located 118 miles (188 km) southeast . . Childs and Jacobs located the mining claim which constituted most of the old Ajo group of mines. They made a permanent camp and worked the mines. . . " - The Ancient Mines of Ajo by Dan Rose

Geography

Ajo is located at 32°22′53″N, 112°52′10″W (32. 381348, -112. 869407)^[1].

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 28. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title) is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census 1 square miles (72. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. 7 km²), all of it land. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of

The mineral ajoite was first found at the New Cornelia Mine, Ajo. A mineral is a naturally occurring substance formed through geological processes that has a characteristic chemical composition a highly ordered atomic structure and specific Ajoite is a Mineral which is part of the silicate class Its Chemical make up is ( K, Na) Cu 7 Al ( ^[2]

Demographics

As of the census^[3] of 2000, there were 3,705 people, 1,659 households, and 1,088 families residing in the CDP. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population The population density was 132. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 0 people per square mile (51. 0/km²). There were 2,485 housing units at an average density of 88. 5/sq mi (34. 2/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 78. 70% White, 0. 24% Black or African American, 6. 88% Native American, 0. 30% Asian, 0. 08% Pacific Islander, 9. 15% from other races, and 4. 64% from two or more races. 37. 57% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 1,659 households out of which 19. 7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51. 4% were married couples living together, 10. NOTICE TO WOULD-BE ROMEOS ************** 6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34. 4% were non-families. 30. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 17. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2. 23 and the average family size was 2. 74.

In the CDP the population was spread out with 20. 6% under the age of 18, 4. 9% from 18 to 24, 17. 2% from 25 to 44, 25. 3% from 45 to 64, and 32. 1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 52 years. For every 100 females there were 90. 3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88. 3 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $25,618, and the median income for a family was $29,310. Males had a median income of $28,000 versus $18,571 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $14,548. Per capita income means how much each individual receives in monetary terms of the yearly income generated in the country About 16. 5% of families and 22. 3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 36. The poverty threshold, or poverty line, is the minimum level of Income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate Standard of living in a given country 5% of those under age 18 and 9. 0% of those age 65 or over.

Schools

Ajo Unified School District is the only school district in Ajo, Arizona. A unified school district is a school district which includes both Primary school ( Kindergarten through Middle school or junior high and High school There is currently an elementary school, junior high school, and high school, all of which are located in the same area. See also Primary education An elementary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of Compulsory education known as elementary Middle school or Junior High School serves as a "bridge" between the Elementary School and the High School High school is the name used in some parts of the world (in particular Scotland, North America and Australia) to describe an institution The high school currently has a football team, basketball team (both boys and girls) , baseball team (boys), softball team (girls), golf team, and track & field. American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each Softball is a team Sport popular especially in the United States. They are known as the Ajo Red Raiders.

References

External links

• Ajo Chamber of Commerce
• Ajo Unified School District
• Ajo's hometown newspaper, the Ajo Copper News
• Ajo Copper News Archives
• Cabeza Prieta Natural History Association

• Ajo, Arizona is at coordinates 32°22′53″N 112°52′10″W / 32.381348, -112.869407 (Ajo, Arizona)Coordinates: 32°22′53″N 112°52′10″W / 32.381348, -112.869407 (Ajo, Arizona)
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