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    Gila Bend (/ˌhiːlə ˈbɛnd/; O'odham: Hila Wi:n), founded in 1872, is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The town is named for an approximately...
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    Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field (ICAO: KGXF, FAA LID: GXF) is a United States Air Force auxiliary airfield used as an emergency landing facility by...
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    southward along the Gila Bend Mountains, then it swings westward again near the town of Gila Bend. It flows southwestward between the Gila Mountains to the...
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    Arizona State Route 85 (category Gila River)
    at Interstate 10 (I-10) in Buckeye. The highway also intersects I-8 in Gila Bend and serves as a connector between I-8 and I-10 and for travelers between...
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  • Hills Unified School District #98 Fowler Elementary School District #45 Gila Bend Unified School District #24 Gilbert Unified School District #41 Glendale...
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  • Gila Bend Indian Reservation was one of three Tohono O'odham Nations 3 reservations, with this one being the smallest both geographically and demographically...
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  • Gila Bend High School is a high school in Gila Bend, Arizona under the jurisdiction of the Gila Bend Unified School District. It is a member of the CAA...
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    The Gila Bend Mountains are a 35-mile (56 km) long mountain range of the north-central Sonoran Desert southwest of Phoenix, Arizona and in southwest Maricopa...
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    Municipal Airport in Buckeye (BXK) Falcon Field in Mesa (MSC) Gila Bend Municipal Airport in Gila Bend (E63) Wickenburg Municipal Airport in Wickenburg (E25)...
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    learning how to walk, Morita was transported from the hospital directly to the Gila River camp in Arizona to join his interned family. After about a year and...
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    Age Lodge, Gila Bend, built in 1962 and currently owned and run by Best Western Gillespie Dam, Gila Bend Gillespie Dam Bridge, Gila Bend, 1927 bridge...
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    1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed an executive order creating the Gila Bend Indian Reservation as additional lands for the Tohono Oʼodham people....
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    (3) (also known as SR 8 Bus.) begins at an interchange with I-8 west of Gila Bend before passing under the freeway, continuing east and merging with SR 85...
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    The Gila River War Relocation Center was an American concentration camp in Arizona, one of several built by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) during the...
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    Interstate 8 (category Gila River)
    across the Imperial Valley to Yuma; east of there, the Gila Trail continued east to Gila Bend. These were later replaced by U.S. Route 80 (US 80) across...
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    / 32.88750; -112.72000 (Gila Bend AAFAF) Transferred from Luke AAF, June 1943. Part of the Gila Bend Gunnery Range Gila Bend #6/Williams AAF #4: 32°43′11″N...
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    Ken-ichi Sato and his wife Chieko. She and her family were incarcerated at the Gila River War Relocation Center during World War II following the signing of...
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    Gila Bend Municipal Airport (FAA LID: E63) is 2 miles (1.7 nmi; 3.2 km) east of Gila Bend, in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The airport covers...
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    The Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad went from Gila Bend, Arizona to Ajo, Arizona. The railroad was incorporated in 1915 for use by the New Cornelia...
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  • The Gatlin Site is an archaeological site in Gila Bend, Arizona. The site preserves one of the few documented Hohokam platform mounds. Associated with...
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  • Hassayampa River with the Gila River. The Tonopah Desert is also just north of the Gila Bend Mountains massif which create the Gila Bend of the river. The Tonopah...
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  • The Gila Bend Unified School District is a small school district in the town of Gila Bend, Arizona. It operates a combined elementary/junior high school...
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    in 1923 and was raised in Guadalupe, California. After being sent to the Gila River internment camp in Arizona, Ishimoto volunteered to fight in World...
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    United States Marine during World War II. Hayes was an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community, located in Pinal and Maricopa counties in Arizona...
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    in YUMA, AZ". www.gridinfo.com. Retrieved 2024-07-16. "Gila Bend Hybrid | Solar Farm in Gila Bend, AZ". www.gridinfo.com. Retrieved 2024-07-16. "OE_AZ1...
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    Painted Rock Dam (category Gila River)
    The Painted Rock Dam is an earthfill embankment dam located west of Gila Bend, Arizona. It is primarily used for flood control purposes. The Painted Rock...
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  • International Airport GA 0 Eloy E60 Eloy Municipal Airport GA 0 Gila Bend E63 Gila Bend Municipal Airport GA 0 Globe P13 San Carlos Apache Airport GA 0...
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    Arizona SR 85 (former US 80) and Old US 80, Phoenix to Gila Bend, Arizona I-8 (former US 80), Gila Bend to San Diego, California I-5 (former US 101), San Diego...
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    The Solana Generating Station is a solar power plant near Gila Bend, Arizona, about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Phoenix. It was completed in 2013....
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    Reservations and the San Lucy district near Gila Bend. Tonto Apache Reservation Tonto Apache Dilzhę́’é 1974 120 0.13 (0.34) Gila White Mountain Apache Reservation...
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