Litchfield Park, Arizona Litchfield Park, Arizona Official seal of Litchfield Park, Arizona Litchfield Park, Arizona is positioned in the US Litchfield Park, Arizona - Litchfield Park, Arizona Litchfield Park is a town/city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.
The town of Litchfield Park is titled for its founder, Paul Weeks Litchfield (1875-1959).
Litchfield went to the Phoenix region at the suggestion of the United States Department of Agriculture, but he was not prosperous in motivating small-town farmers to expanded his cotton.
Instead he got Goodyear to form the Southwest Cotton Company in Phoenix, with Litchfield as its president, eventually purchasing some 36,000 acres in the general Salt River Valley region including 5,000 acres around the present site of Litchfield Park, then known as Litchfield Ranch.
Postal Service agreed to the name "Litchfield Park" in 1926.
He retired from the business in 1958, and spent the final months of his life as a resident of Litchfield Park at his home on Fairway Drive. In 1964, Goodyear created Litchfield Park Land and Development Co.
To grew Litchfield Park into a 90,000 resident community. Arden E.
The plan called for 25,000 homes, a college, a junior college, eighteen elementary schools, ten junior high schools, and six high schools, as well as improvements to the town's golf course and harness track at an cost of at least 750 million dollars. Goodyear made many mistakes amid development, including selling properties right up to the curb line, which means that the town/city must get permission from property owners before they can put in a sidewalk.
They abandoned their plans for expanding Litchfield Park before they were instead of and sold whatever territory they could. Litchfield Park is positioned at 33 29 36 N 112 21 30 W (33.493410, -112.358210). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.1 square miles (8.0 km2), all of it dry territory with the exception of a man made lake.
Litchfield Park had a populace of 5,476 at the 2010 census.
The Litchfield Elementary School District and the Agua Fria Union High School District serve Litchfield Park.
Litchfield Elementary School District has some schools positioned in the city.
Historic Litchfield Elementary School One of two initial Litchfield Elementary School buildings which date back to 1917.
The second of two initial Litchfield Elementary School buildings which date back to 1917.
Both buildings are positioned inside the grounds of the undivided Litchfield Elementary School at 13825 W Wigwam Blvd.
Kiwanis Litchfield Park Winter Trout Fishing Derby Litchfield Park Friends of the Rec 10k, 5k, 1 Mile Run/Walk Annual Wigwam Amateur Championship hosted by the City of Litchfield Park A History of Litchfield Park "Decline of Scout Park angers Litchfield Park neighbor".
2010 census chart for Litchfield Park "Official Web Site of the City of Litchfield Park".
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Official Web Site of the City of Litchfield Park
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