Wheatfields is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(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 785 at the 2010 United States Census. It is one of two places in Arizona with this name, the other being a populated place in Apache County.

Geography

Wheatfields is located in southern Gila County in the valley of Pinal Creek.

Arizona State Route 188 State Route 188 is a state highway located primarily in Gila County in the U.S. state of Arizona. Route description The route, also known as Apache Trail at its southern end, starts at U.S. Route 60 in Globe, just north of Claypool, and ...

forms the western edge of the CDP, leading northwest to

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 ...

and south to

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, the

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. According to the

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, the Wheatfields CDP has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

References

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