Arizola is a populated place situated in

Pinal County Pinal County is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. According to the 2020 census, the population of the county was 425,264, making it Arizona's third-most populous county. The county seat is Florence. The county was est ...

Arizona Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the nort ...

, United States. It has an estimated elevation of above sea level. The community was named by combining Arizona and Ola Thomas, the daughter of an early settler.

History

Arizola's population was 20 in the 1960 census. The town was the center of an attempted swindle by

James Addison Reavis James Addison Reavis (May 10, 1843November 27, 1914), later using the name James Addison Peralta-Reavis, the so-called Baron of Arizona, was an American forger and fraudster. He is best known in association with the Peralta land grant, also kno ...

, the so-called "Baron of Arizona". Reavis claimed to own all water and minerals in a purported Spanish land grant.

References

{{authority control Populated places in Pinal County, Arizona Populated places in the Sonoran Desert