Springerville, Arizona

Springerville (Navajo: Tsé Noodǫ́ǫ́z) is a town in Apache County, Arizona, United States, within the White Mountains.

Along with its neighbor Eagar, the communities make up the place known as Round Valley, which is in the central-eastern part of Arizona close to the New Mexico border.

The town that grew around Henry Springer's trading post was officially given its name on May 10, 1876.

[4] Before that time it had gone by names such as Colorado Chiquito, Milligan Settlement, and Valle Redondo (Round Valley).

Corral, was shot dead in Springerville on June 1, 1887, by detective Jonas V. Brighton when he resisted arrest on charges of cattle rustling.

In 1951, Twentieth Century Fox filmed an adaptation of Fred Gipson's novel The Home Place titled Return of the Texan at several locations in and around Springerville.

[8][9] In June 2011, most of the town was evacuated due to a nearby wildfire some stayed and met with each other alongside residents of Eagar in the round valley dome.

The high school's football stadium, The Round Valley Ensphere located in Eagar, is the eighth biggest geodesic dome in the world with a diameter of 440 feet / 134 m. The school board voted to give the Dome a pinkish looking color, and it was completed in 1992.

[19] The name Casa Malpais means "House built from Malapai", which describes the type volcanic vesicular basalt from which the ancient village was constructed.

The first visit to Casa Malpais by a professional anthropologist was in 1883, when Frank Cushing, living at Zuni, visited a site at "El Valle Redondo on the Colorado Chiquito", and was impressed by what he termed "the fissure type pueblo" he found there.

A steep basalt staircase set into a crevice of the high red cliff wall leads to the top of the mesa.

The town contains one of the twelve Madonna of the Trail monuments created by sculptor August Leimbach.

Springerville Town Hall in 2009
Springerville Post Office with postal code 85938
A Madonna of the Trail monument in Springerville
The Kiva at Casa Malpaís