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Prescott Unified District
The Prescott Unified School District (PUSD) is a school district serving Prescott, Arizona. It operates four elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school. The superintendent is Joe Howard. Service area In addition to almost all of Prescott it serves most of Williamson and sections of Prescott Valley. the district takes in high school students from the Hillside Elementary School District, Kirkland Elementary School District, and Skull Valley School District, as it is required to under law. It also takes students from the Yarnell Elementary School District. Additionally it took high school students from the Walnut Grove Elementary School District Walnut Grove Elementary School District #7 was a school district in Yavapai County, Arizona. It operated a school in the Walnut Grove area, then became a sending school district. It served Walnut Grove and Castle Hot Springs. History The school ..., until that district dissolved in 2021. Schools ; High school * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prescott, Arizona
Prescott ( ) is a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2020 Census, the city's population was 45,827. The city is the county seat of Yavapai County. In 1864, Prescott was designated as the capital of the Arizona Territory, replacing the temporary capital of Fort Whipple. The Territorial Capital was moved to Tucson in 1867. Prescott again became the Territorial Capital in 1877, until Phoenix became the capital in 1889. Prescott has a rich history as a frontier gold and silver mining town. Mining and settlers brought frequent conflict with native American tribes in the area, including the Yavapai and Apache. Prescott was the home to Fort Whipple from its inception, which acted as a base for campaigns against natives. Prescott was a stereotypical "wild west" town during the latter half of the 19th century; famous residents included Doc Holliday and Virgil Earp of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The makeshift wooden town burned to the ground sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williamson, Arizona
Williamson is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. The population was 3,776 at the 2000 census. The name "Wiliamson" is a misnomer, perhaps propagated by federal bureaucratic error; the area has long been known as "Williamson Valley" after the major road through the area, Williamson Valley Road. Geography Williamson is located at (34.674552, -112.530445). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. An attempt in 2009 to incorporate the area into a town failed after the neighboring town of Prescott voted against the proposal. Demographics At the 2000 census there were 3,776 people, 1,558 households, and 1,266 families in the CDP. The population density was . There were 1,718 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.9% White, 0.1% Black or African American, 0.4% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.8% from other races, and 1.4% from two or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prescott Valley, Arizona
Prescott Valley is a town located in Yavapai County, Arizona, Yavapai County, Arizona, United States, approximately east of Prescott, Arizona, Prescott. According to the 2020 United States Census, Prescott Valley has a population of 46,785 residents. History Prescott Valley's Fitzmaurice Ruins contain artifacts from the early Mountain Patayan people who inhabited the area some 1,400 years ago. The Walker Party discovered gold along Lynx Creek in 1863. The Lynx Creek placers went on to produce a recorded of gold. Estimates of actual production range up to , which would be worth about $138 million at 2020 prices. Prescott Valley, formerly known as Lonesome Valley, was settled by ranchers in the 1880s, raising beef to supply the miners and new settlers. The Fain family, pioneer ranchers, still ranch in the valley. Thomas Gibson Barlow-Massicks arrived in the area in the early 1890s and built the historic "castle" that still stands in Fain Park. Massicks had a hydraulic mining, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillside Elementary School District
Hillside is a populated place situated in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. The town was named because it sits on a hillside by Date Creek. A post office was established here on July 31, 1888. It has an estimated elevation of above sea level. Transportation Arizona State Route 96 connects Hillside with Arizona State Route 97 and Bagdad, Arizona to the west. Yavapai County Route 15 heads east from Hillside to Arizona State Route 89 at Wilhoit. Yavapai County Route 62 heads south from Hillside to Arizona State Route 89 northeast of Congress. Hillside is on the BNSF Railway's Phoenix Subdivision. Hillside Elementary School District Hillside Elementary School District consists of one K–8 school in Hillside, named Hillside Elementary. The district has one administrator and one secretary. The school is taught by one teacher with one teacher's aide. The enrollment is approximately 20 students in all grades. The school operates on a four-day schedule, Monday through Thursday a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkland Elementary School District
Kirkland Elementary School District #23 is a school district based in Kirkland, Arizona, consisting of a single K-8 school. In addition to Kirkland the district includes Wilhoit. The school was established circa 1909. the school district has little of a taxation base, so much of the taxes comes from residents. The residents lacked the tax money to rebuild the school, though the current building had modern technology. the Prescott Unified School District takes secondary students from the district, as it is required to under law. The Prescott district operates Prescott High School. Until its 2021 disestablishment, Walnut Grove Elementary School District Walnut Grove Elementary School District #7 was a school district in Yavapai County, Arizona. It operated a school in the Walnut Grove area, then became a sending school district. It served Walnut Grove and Castle Hot Springs. History The school ..., which did not operate any schools at the end of its life, sent students see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skull Valley School District
Skull Valley School District is a school district in Yavapai County, Arizona. It operates a single public K-8 school, Skull Valley Elementary School, in Skull Valley. The school has four teachers and generally 20–30 students. Enrollment in 2017 was 14 students. the Prescott Unified School District takes secondary students from the Skull Valley district, as it is required to under law. The district operates Prescott High School. The school district has leased land to the Skull Valley Historical Society, which has a museum next door to the school, and the historical school building itself is a significant historical structure in the area. As of the 2003 census, the population in the Skull Valley Elementary School District was 525 people. The school has two classrooms. Historical significance Although official records do not indicate this, area settlers recall that a school was established in 1878. The school had been formally established by the early 1900s, when it offere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Arizona Republic
''The Arizona Republic'' is an American daily newspaper published in Phoenix. Circulated throughout Arizona, it is the state's largest newspaper. Since 2000, it has been owned by the Gannett newspaper chain. Copies are sold at $2 daily or at $3 on Sundays and $5 on Thanksgiving Day; prices are higher outside Arizona. History Early years The newspaper was founded May 19, 1890, under the name ''The Arizona Republican''. Dwight B. Heard, a Phoenix land and cattle baron, ran the newspaper from 1912 until his death in 1929. The paper was then run by two of its top executives, Charles Stauffer and W. Wesley Knorpp, until it was bought by Midwestern newspaper magnate Eugene C. Pulliam in 1946. Stauffer and Knorpp had changed the newspaper's name to ''The Arizona Republic'' in 1930, and also had bought the rival ''Phoenix Evening Gazette'' and ''Phoenix Weekly Gazette'', later known, respectively, as ''The Phoenix Gazette'' and the ''Arizona Business Gazette''. Pulliam era Pulliam, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix ( ; nv, Hoozdo; es, Fénix or , yuf-x-wal, Banyà :nyuwá) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities and towns in Arizona#List of cities and towns, most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020. It is the List of United States cities by population, fifth-most populous city in the United States, and the only U.S. state capital with a population of more than one million residents. Phoenix is the anchor of the Phoenix metropolitan area, also known as the Valley of the Sun, which in turn is part of the Salt River Valley. The metropolitan area is the 11th largest by population in the United States, with approximately 4.85 million people . Phoenix, the seat of Maricopa County, Arizona, Maricopa County, has the largest area of all cities in Arizona, with an area of , and is also the List of United States cities by area, 11th largest city by area in the United States. It is the largest metropolitan area, bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yarnell Elementary School District
Yarnell Elementary School District (YESD) is a school district headquartered in Peeples Valley, Arizona. It has one school, Model Creek School. The school district area includes Peeples Valley and a section of Yarnell. The school has a combined principal and superintendent. Clipping fromNewspapers.com After the 8th grade, students move on to Prescott High School of the Prescott Unified School District. Previously students could choose between that school and Wickenburg High School of the Wickenburg Unified School District, but in order to reduce taxes, the district board removed the Wickenburg option in November 2018. History For a period of time the Peeples Valley School District sent students to the Yarnell district, as the former did not operate any schools. On July 1, 1980, the Yarnell district absorbed the Peeples Valley district. Prior to the Yarnell Hill Fire in 2013, the school had around 50 students. The student population fell to around 32 because the fire had damage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walnut Grove Elementary School District
Walnut Grove Elementary School District #7 was a school district in Yavapai County, Arizona. It operated a school in the Walnut Grove area, then became a sending school district. It served Walnut Grove and Castle Hot Springs. History The school district began circa 1875 and its final building, a one room schoolhouse, was established in 1930. â€Clipping of first an of second page at Newspapers.com. The schoolhouse was along the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wickenburg Sun
The ''Mohave Valley Daily News'' is a newspaper in Bullhead City, Arizona, United States. It was started in 1964 by Lee B. Perry, then owner and publisher of the nearby ''Needles Desert Star'', a weekly newspaper serving Needles, California and the southern Mohave Valley. It is owned by Brehm Communications, and it has a circulation of 8,600. Other publications News West Publishing, the division of Brehm that publishes the ''Daily News'', also publishes: * ''The Bullhead City Booster'' (weekly) * ''Laughlin Entertainer'' (weekly) * ''The Laughlin Times'', serving Laughlin, Nevada (weekly) * ''Real Estate 411'' (monthly) * ''Needles Desert Star'', published in Needles, California Needles is a city in San Bernardino County, California, in the Mojave Desert region of Southern California. Situated on the western banks of the Colorado River, Needles is located near the Californian border with Arizona and Nevada. The city is a ... (weekly) A separate division of News West Pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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