Lake Havasu City, Arizona Lake Havasu City, Arizona Lake Havasu City, Arizona is positioned in the US Lake Havasu City, Arizona - Lake Havasu City, Arizona Lake Havasu City is a town/city in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.
According to 2010 census, the populace of the town is 52,527 citizens . It is served by Lake Havasu City Airport.
Lake Havasu City is geographically isolated from the other metros/cities in Mohave County and is the southernmost improve of Greater Las Vegas.
The improve first started as an Army Air Corps rest camp amid World War II on the shores of Lake Havasu.
Lake Havasu City was established on September 30, 1963 by a resolution of the Mohave County Board of Supervisors as the Lake Havasu Irrigation and Drainage District, making it a legal entity.
The London Bridge crosses a narrow channel that leads from Lake Havasu (a segment of the Colorado River) to Thompson Bay (also on the river).
It was bought for US $2.5 million from the City of London when the bridge was replaced in 1968.
The bridge was disassembled, and the marked stones were shipped to Lake Havasu City and reassembled for another US $7 million.
When Lake Havasu City wanted to use this territory for a visitors' center, it leased it back for a quit rent of a Hopi Kachina figure. Lake Havasu City is an active destination for a wide range of citizens .
With its reputation as a party community, Lake Havasu has twice been featured amid MTV's Spring Break coverage. For boaters, March to September are the prime months on Lake Havasu.
The town/city is also home to the International World Jet Ski Final Races, multiple experienced fishing tournaments, custom boat regattas, the Western Winter Blast pyrotechnics convention, Havasu 95 Speedway, the Chilln-n-Swilln Beer Festival annual charity event, the Havasu Triathlon, the Havasu Half Marathon and the Havasu Island Hot Air Balloon Fest & Fair. Mc - Culloch Properties Lockheed Constellation used to transport prospective purchasers to Lake Havasu City in the early 1970s and wearing the city's name.
Lake Havasu City is positioned at 34 29 24 N 114 18 32 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 43.1 square miles (112 km2), of which, 43.0 square miles (111 km2) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (0.07%) is water.
The only surface access to Lake Havasu City is by road via Arizona State Route 95, which meets Interstate 40 to the north of the town/city and Interstate 10 to the south.
Wood, who designed Disneyland, was hired by Robert Mc - Culloch to lay out Lake Havasu's unique road system. In the early stages of evolution of the city, Mc - Culloch Properties directed a fleet of secondhand airliners such as the Lockheed Constellation and the Lockheed L-188 Electra fly prospective property purchasers to the region from California and elsewhere in the USA.
Lake Havasu City does not have a enhance transit system. Private shuttles furnish transportation to Las Vegas and Laughlin, Nevada.
Havasu Landing Resort and Casino provides a ferry to Havasu Lake, California. Lake Havasu City has a hot desert climate.
The town/city has extremely hot summers, with highs normally remaining between 100 F and 115 F (38 C - 46 C).
The highest overnight low temperature (record high minimum) ever recorded in Lake Havasu City was 98 F (37 C) on July 22, 2003. Climate data for Lake Havasu City Arizona (1981-2010) Lake Havasu City holds the all-time record high temperature in Arizona history with 128 F recorded on June 29, 1994.
On December 31, 2014, snow fell on Lake Havasu City.
As of the census of 2000, there were 41,938 citizens , 17,911 homeholds, and 12,716 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 19.4% under the age of 18, 5.7% from 18 to 24, 21.6% from 25 to 44, 27.7% from 45 to 64, and 25.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
In 2007, Lake Havasu was titled one of the Top 100 places to live in America by Relocate - America. CNN has also listed the improve among their top retirement metros/cities in the country.
Lake Havasu City is served by the Lake Havasu Unified School District. There are presently six elementary schools (Jamaica Elementary, Oro Grande Elementary, Starline Elementary, Smoketree Elementary, Nautilus Elementary, and Havasupai Elementary), one middle school (Thunderbolt Middle School), one high school (Lake Havasu High School), and a several alternative schools in the city.
In a 2008 nationwide survey, Forbes periodical ranked Lake Havasu City "The Least Educated City in America", using knowledge from statistics on the Lake Havasu - Kingman Metropolitan Travel Destination which encompasses Mohave County Arizona coming up last in the number of college graduates living in the city. A ground of Mohave Community College is positioned in Lake Havasu City.
Arizona State University opened a new lower-tuition 4-year college campus, the ASU Colleges at Lake Havasu City, in August 2012. The City Council sets the City's policy and direction, and appoints the City Manager who is tasked with the responsibility for carrying out Council policies and administering the day-to-day operations.
Per the City Code, the Department Directors are appointed by the City Manager. As of November, 2008, 64 percent of registered voters in Lake Havasu City are Republican, 35 percent Democrat, and the remaining 1 percent Independent. Lake Havasu City hosted the final appreciation dinner for retiring United States Senator Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican Party presidential nominee, at the Nautical Inn Convention Center on October 21, 1986.
It was the first movie to be made on locale in the new town of Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The London Bridge's relocation to Arizona was the basis of a 1985 made-for-TV movie Bridge Across Time (also known as Arizona Ripper or Terror at London Bridge), directed by E.W.
In the film, a series of murders in Lake Havasu is attributed to the spirit of Jack the Ripper, whose soul is transported to America in one of the bricks of the London Bridge. The director Andy Sidaris has directed three soft-core adult films in Lake Havasu: 1989's Savage Beach, 1990's Guns, and 1992's Hard Hunted. In the film Falling Down (1993), Robert Duvall's character Sergeant Prendergast speaks about how he plans to retire in Lake Havasu City.
MTV featured Lake Havasu amid their Spring Break coverage in 1995 and 2004. The comedy-adventure Border to Border was filmed in Lake Havasu in 1998.
Piranha 3-D was filmed in Lake Havasu in 2009.
The town/city was called Lake Victoria in the film.
It debuted in Lake Havasu on Thursday, August 19, 2010, and was released nationally on August 20, 2010. In 2009 Travis Pastrana and the rest of the Nitro Circus crew filmed an entire episode of their TV show in Lake Havasu that aired amid Season 2.
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