Why is a small rural community in the Tohono O'Odham Indian Reservation in Southern Arizona.
The unusual name of the town comes from the fact the two major highways, Arizona 85 and Arizona 86, originally intersected in a Y-intersection. Arizona Department of Transporation (ADOT) later removed the old Y-intersection for traffic safety reasons and built the two highways in a conventional T-intersection to the south of the original intersection.
The Arizona team had no flag and brought this to the attention of Colonel Charles Wilfred Harris, then serving as adjutant general of the Arizona National Guard.
John P. Hoyt, born in 1841 in Augstinburg, Ashtabula County, Ohio, was confirmed Secretary of the Arizona Territory and admitted to practice law in Arizona in 1876.
He compiled the laws of the Arizona Territory from 1864 to 1877, known as the “Hoyt Code” that later became known as the Arizona Revised Statutes.
Arizona has witnessed a human population explosion in recent years, fueled in part by a general prosperity that enables individual families to exercise more choice in their residence.
However, Arizona is a patchwork quilt of private, state, tribal, and federal lands, and to be large enough, most Arizona ranches must combine the private land of the rancher with grazing land leased from the federal and state governments.
Early in the formation of Arizona Common Ground Roundtable, participants agreed that attention to both economic and ecological health was necessary to insure the continuing sustainability of native flora and fauna, and the survival of rural communities in Arizona.
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