Arizona City (Yuma, Arizona)

From 1853 a small settlement, Arizona City, grew up on the high ground across from Fort Yuma, first as the adobe residence of Mrs.

[1][3] With the end of the Butterfield route through New Mexico Territory in March 1861, and Apache hostilities, mail ceased to be delivered except by military courier and the Arizona post office was discontinued June 8, 1863.

[7] At the time, it was the 5th largest White settlement (and 16th overall, including native villages) in Arizona County (tied with Fort Mojave).

[8] It became the second largest community in Arizona Territory after Tucson (although the census-takers failed to report any native villages in that census, unlike in 1860).

On March 11, 1871, Arizona City was officially incorporated by an act of the Territorial legislature, the same year it gained the county seat from La Paz.