Get an ADT-Monitored Home Security System in Scottsdale, Arizona

Scottsdale is a city in the eastern portion of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and is ration of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Named Scottsdale in 1894 after its founder Winfield Scott, a retired U.S. Army chaplain, the city was incorporated in 1951 next a population of 2,000. As of the 2020 census, the population was 241,361, which had grown from 217,385 in 2010. Its slogan is “The West’s Most Western Town”. Over the in the aerate of two decades, it has been one of the fastest growing cities in the United States.

Scottsdale is 31 miles from its Northern to Southern-most edge, and covers 184.5 square miles. The city is bordered by the city of Phoenix to the West, Tonto National Forest to the North, the McDowell Mountains to the East, and the Salt River to the South.

The area that includes what became Scottsdale was first inhabited by the Hohokam people, from nearly 300 BC to 1450 AD. This ancient civilization farmed the area and developed a mysterious network of irrigation canals that was unsurpassed in pre-Columbian North America. At its peak, the canals stretched greater than 250 mi (400 km). Many remain today, some having been renovated and put into use in the 20th century. Under still-unknown circumstances, the Hohokam left the Place about 1450 or 1500, most likely because of a prolonged drought. The next-door inhabitants, the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and the Tohono O’odham (Papago), are thought to be the Hohokam’s focus on descendants.