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Casa Grande, Arizona Area DemographicsCasa Grande, Arizona real estate is located in Pinal County in the fast-growing south-central part of the state, occupying 48 square miles just northwest of the intersection of Interstates 8 and 10, which makes the city primed for future development. With a population of 29,700 (2003 U.S. census), Casa Grande is the largest incorporated city in Pinal County, although the unincorporated community of Apache Junction (population: 34,027) is larger.
Pinal County is home to 229,549 residents (2005 U.S census estimate), making it the third largest county in Arizona, after Maricopa County (population: 3,635,528), which includes Phoenix (population: 1,388,416) and eight of the other 10 largest cities in the state, and Pima County (population: 924,786), which includes Tucson (population: 507,658), the second largest city in the state. Pinal County has nearly tripled in size since 1980, when its population was 87,904.
Pinal County contains about 25 cities, towns and unincorporated communities. Florence, Arizona (population: 17,054) is the Pinal County seat and locals say it is the fifth-oldest town in Arizona. Besides Casa Grande, Apache Junction and Florence, other large cities and communities in Pinal County include: Queen Creek (population: 19,400); Eloy (population: 10,375); and the exploding new city of Maricopa, which was incorporated in 2003 and has grown in population from 1,040 in 2000 to 15,934 in 2005. There are about 20 ghost towns of the Old West in Pinal County, most of them small, abandoned mining communities. Arizona has tripled in size in the past three decades and Pinal County is a leader in the growth trend due to its desirable location.
Temperatures in Casa Grande are wide-ranging from an average high of 102 degrees in July to 65 degrees in January and an average low in the mid-70s in July to 40 in January. Along with temperatures higher than the national average, sunshine is much higher than the national average, although humidity is much lower than the national average and rainfall averages slightly more than nine inches per year, well below the national average.
Casa Grande, Arizona History and CultureCasa Grande, Arizona real estate is located in the Sonora Desert between three Indian reservations: the Tohono O’odham, Gila River and Ak-Chin.
Casa Grande was originally the end of the Southern Pacific Railroad line and the settlement was appropriately named “Terminus.” When the railroad pushed on toward Tucson, a small town of railroad workers was established. Casa Grande (which means “big house” or “great house” in Spanish) was founded in 1879 during the Arizona mining boom and became incorporated in 1915. It was named after the Hohokam ruins at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, 20 miles northeast of the city.
In 1886 and again 1893, the town was decimated by fire. All of the wooden-frame buildings erected after the 1886 fire burned in the 1893 fire and the entire business district had to be replaced for a second time in less than a decade. In 1890, the town was home to 256 residents and 70 buildings. A national mining slump almost killed the town in the 1890s and by 1902, Casa Grande’s business district had dwindled to three stores and a saloon. Agriculture saved the community from becoming another Southwestern mining ghost town. It started with small-scale farming and livestock. Vegetables and crops such as alfalfa, wheat, barley, citrus and cotton became important export commodities.
Another fire struck in 1915, the year the city was incorporated. Businesses were rebuilt yet again. That never-give-up spirit is what has literally kept Casa Grande on the map.
A variety of Indian tribes have inhabited the area for thousands of years prior to the arrival of Europeans. The Hohokam people were the earliest settlers of the Valley of the Sun, which includes Phoenix to the north and stretches into Pinal County. Coronado explored the area in the early 1540s in search of the legendary “seven cities of gold.” Settlers arrived and often fought the Indians (particularly the Apache) until fortified presidios were built at Tubac in 1752 and Tucson in 1775. All of what is now Arizona became part of Mexico’s northwest frontier when Mexico asserted its independence from Spain in 1810. The U.S. took possession of most of Arizona at the end of the Mexican War in 1848, after paying the Mexican government. In 1853 the land below the Gila River was acquired from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase. Casa Grande traces its roots to the mining and transportation industries dating back to the late 19th century. Phoenix was incorporated with a population of about 2,500 in 1881, but did not pass Tucson in population until 1920.
Casa Grande’s native and Mexican heritage permeate modern culture, from its residents to its restaurants to its architecture. Spanish is widely spoken and attentive ears will pick up Native American dialects. Pueblo-style buildings with adobe walls and low, flat roofs dot the landscape.
The development of air conditioning and a more reliable water supply helped to more than triple the state and county populations in the past three decades. Dude ranches became popular in the 1950s, but ritzy resorts have claimed a significant share of the tourist trade. Agriculture and mining remain important industries, but tourism has grown to rival them. High-technology is also a growing industry.
Casa Grande will only continue to grow thanks to its location near the Phoenix metropolitan area.
Casa Grande, Arizona Attractions, Activities and AmenitiesCasa Grande, Arizona real estate is a place where the Old West meets the New West. Casa Grande offers every amenity of a big city with the rich history, rural heritage and the friendly, easy-going atmosphere of a small town. Casa Grande offers a full range of housing options in a place where the surrounding desert, lakes and multicolored mountains provide plenty of opportunities for recreation. Casa Grande’s location outside Phoenix and its immediate suburbs offers beautiful scenery and an escape from the bustle of the big city. Casa Grande is in a desirable growth corridor, with a balance of industries, including agriculture, retail, manufacturing, tourism and service industries.
Casa Grande hosts a variety of festivals, including the Annual Fiddlers’ Bluegrass Jamboree, Heritage Tourism Days, Wuertz Farm Family Gourd Festival, O’odham Tash Festival, Arizona State Open Chili Championship, Cactus Fly-In and a Civil War reenactment. In addition, a special series of events targeted at seniors, called the Winter Celebration, is designed to take advantage of Casa Grande’s seven months of glorious weather. Casa Grande offers museums, parks, golf courses, upscale restaurants, movie theaters and more. The city is the retail center for western Pinal County and includes many merchants from national retail chains to smaller specialty stores to antique shops, a beautiful historic district downtown and the Outlets of Casa Grande with more than 35 quality outlet stores, which attracts nearly 2 million shoppers per year.
Casa Grande is a modern city with a rural heritage. Although modern amenities can be found in the progressive city, it maintains a small-town charm and relaxed lifestyle that sets it apart from other suburban Arizona cities.
East of Casa Grande, one terrific outdoor activity is driving the 42-mile Pinal Pioneer Parkway, a scenic drive from Florence to Oracle and regarded as one of the best drives in the state. There is a portion of the drive just south of Florence where a natural garden contains almost every species of flora found in Arizona’s deserts. Other outdoor activities include visiting the many old mining camps and ghost towns, fishing at Picacho Peak Reservoir, Tonto National Park Cliff Dwellings or many desert trails, skydiving at the world’s most popular drop, Skydive Arizona, exploring, helicopter and balloon rides, walking through Boyce Thompson Arboretum or golf at nearly 20 Pinal County courses. The Casa Grande Ruins National Park near Coolidge is the last known home of the Hohokam Indians, featuring the mysterious Great House, built in the mid-1400s.
Major League Baseball’s Cactus League is the spring training circuit for 12 of its teams, including nine in Maricopa County: Chicago Cubs (Mesa), Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers (Surprise), Los Angeles Angels (Tempe), Milwaukee Brewers and Oakland A’s (Phoenix), San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners (Peoria) and San Francisco Giants (Scottsdale); and three in Tucson: (Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago White Sox and Colorado Rockies). The local favorite Diamondbacks won the World Series in 2001 in just their fourth year in existence.
Arizona State University has its main campus at Tempe, Arizona, about 45 miles north of Casa Grande, and is the largest university in the U.S., with more than 51,000 undergraduates and more than 60,000 students overall. It is one of 15 institutions of higher learning in Maricopa County. The University of Arizona has its main campus at Tucson, about 70 miles southeast of Casa Grande, with an enrollment of about 28,500 undergraduates and 8,500 graduate students. The Arizona State Museum, on the University of Arizona campus, includes anthropological exhibits, including the largest collection of Hohokam artifacts anywhere, as well as examples of Apache, Hopi, Navajo, Tohono Indian and Mexican cultures, a 20,000-piece collection of Native American pottery and a full-size replica of a 700-year-old cliff dwelling.
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