Six Shooter Canyon is a

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(CDP) in

Gila County Gila County ( ) is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 53,272. The county seat is Globe. Gila County comprises the Payson, Arizona micropolitan statistical area which is incl ...

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, United States. The population was 1,019 at the 2010 census.

Geography

The CDP is located in southern Gila County, just south of the city of

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. It is bordered to the west by the Icehouse Canyon CDP, to the north by Pinal, and to the east by an outer part of the city of Globe. Six Shooter Canyon is drained by Pinal Creek, which flows north through the center of Globe and eventually to the Salt River near

Theodore Roosevelt Lake Theodore Roosevelt Lake (usually called Roosevelt Lake, sometimes Lake Roosevelt) is a large reservoir formed by Theodore Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River (Arizona), Salt River in Arizona as part of the Salt River Project (SRP). Located roughly ...

. According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , all land. Six Shooter Canyon is the location of the Gila Pueblo campus of

Eastern Arizona College Eastern Arizona College (EAC), is a community college in Graham County, Arizona, United States. The main campus is in Thatcher, with satellite locations in Gila County and Greenlee County. It is the oldest community college in Arizona and the ...

Demographics

References

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