Blue (originally, Whittum) is an
unincorporated community
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in
Greenlee County,
Arizona
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, United States.
Blue has a
ZIP Code of 85922; in 2000, the population of the 85922
ZCTA
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was 36. In addition to its post office, Blue also contains a public library, and a public school serving all grade levels.
History
The community was originally named for Nat Whittum, an original settler who was killed at the site in 1891. A post office was established at Whittum in 1894; however, its name was changed to Blue in 1898.
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Blue's population was 80 in the 1940s.
]
Climate
Education
Blue School District 22 is the area school district, serving K-12. In 1984 Randy Collier of ''The Arizona Republic
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History
Early years
The newspap ...
'' stated due to difficulties in transportation and from being far from other places, "the social life at Blue primarily is at the school."[ ]
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Previously Blue had a K-8 school K8 or K-8 may refer to:
* K-8 (Kansas highway), two highways in Kansas, one in northern Kansas, one in southern Kansas
* K-8 school, a type of school that includes kindergarten and grades one through eight
* K8 telephone box, designed by Bruce M ...
, so Round Valley High School
Round Valley High School is a high school serving 445 students in Eagar, Arizona, United States. It is the only high school in the Round Valley Unified School District.
When Blue School District in Blue was a K-8 school, Round Valley served Bl ...
in Eagar, of the Round Valley Unified School District
The Round Valley Unified School District (RVUSD) is an Arizona school district comprising five schools in Apache County, Arizona. The towns that house the schools of RVUSD include Eagar and Springerville, Arizona. As of 2006, RVUSD has 1610 stud ...
, served Blue for high school; some students lived with relatives in Eagar and some traveled to and from Eagar via school bus.log cabin
A log cabin is a small log house, especially a minimally finished or less architecturally sophisticated structure. Log cabins have an ancient history in Europe, and in America are often associated with first-generation home building by settl ...
adjacent to the Blue School.[ ]
Address is given as adjacent to the Blue School
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References
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Unincorporated communities in Greenlee County, Arizona
Unincorporated communities in Arizona