Nogales, Arizona Nogales, Arizona City of Nogales Location in Santa Cruz County and the state of Arizona Location in Santa Cruz County and the state of Arizona Nogales is positioned in Arizona Nogales - Nogales Website City of Nogales Nogales is a town/city in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.
Nogales forms part of the larger Tucson-Nogales combined statistical area, with a total populace of 1,027,683 as of the 2010 Census.
Nogales, Arizona, borders the town/city of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, and is Arizona's biggest international border community.
The southern end of Interstate 19 is positioned in Nogales at the U.S.-Mexico border; the highway continues south into Mexico as Mexico Federal Highway 15.
The highways meeting in Nogales comprise a primary road intersection in the CANAMEX Corridor, connecting Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
Nogales also is the beginning of the Arizona Sun Corridor, an economically meaningful trade region stretching from Nogales to Prescott, AZ, including the Tucson and Phoenix urbane areas.
Nogales is home to four International Ports of Entry, including the Morley Pedestrian Port of Entry, Dennis Deconcini Pedestrian and Passenger Vehicle Port of Entry, Nogales International Airport, and the Mariposa Port of Entry.
Due to its locale on the border and its primary ports of entry, Nogales funnels an estimated $30 billion worth of global trade into Arizona and the United States, per year, in fresh produce and produced goods from Mexico and the world through the deep sea port in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico.
This trade helps to support tens of thousands of jobs and the overall economies in Ambos Nogales and throughout the American state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora. Known in O'odham as Nowa:l, (which translates as "prickly pear cactus" or the Spanish "nopal") the name Nogales means "black walnuts" in Spanish, and the walnut trees which once interval abundantly in the mountain pass between the metros/cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, can still be found around the town.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 20.8 square miles (54 km2), all of it land.
Nogales has a semi-arid steppe climate, which is less hot and more rainy than a typical dry climate classification such as Phoenix.
In the winter months, Nogales averages in the mid to upper 60s, with January averaging daily highs of around 63 F or 17.2 C.
The Arizona Monsoon generally runs through July and August, and these months typically see eight inches or more of combined rainfall, which brings the average annual rain for Nogales to about 16 inches or 410 millimetres.
Nogales' all-time highest recorded temperature is 112 F or 44.4 C, which was reached on June 26, 1990.
Climate data for Nogales, Arizona Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, US, about 1899.
The name "Nogales" is derived from the Spanish word for "walnut" or "walnut tree." It refers to the large stands of walnut trees that once stood in the mountain pass where Nogales is located. Nogales was at the beginning of the 1775 1776 Juan Bautista de Anza Expedition as it entered the present day U.S.
On the second floor of the 1904 Nogales Courthouse is a small room dedicated to the 1775 1776 Anza Expedition. In 1841, a territory grant from the Mexican government to the Elias family established Los Nogales de Elias.
Following the Gadsden purchase in 1853, Nogales became a part of the United States of America.
In 1880, Russian immigrant Jacob Isaacson assembled a trading post at present-day Nogales.
Postal Service opened the Isaacson postal service but retitled it as Nogales in 1883. Maytorena ordered assembly of an 11-wire fence, separating Nogales, Sonora from Nogales, Arizona, but it was taken down four months later. Culminating as the result of a decade's worth of tensions originating from the Mexican Revolution and earlier battles in Nogales along the border in 1913 and 1915, the chief consequence of the 1918 violence saw the building of the first permanent border wall between Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, along the previously unobstructed boundary line on International Street.
The economy of Nogales is heavily dependent on the cross-border trade through its Ports of Entry by produce distributors and American-based manufacturing plants in Nogales, Sonora and throughout the rest of the Mexican states of Sonora and Sinaloa.
Most of Nogales' economy is based on agribusiness and produce distributors, which comes from large farms in the Mexican agri-belt.
Even with its small population, Nogales actually receives much patronage from its bordering sister-city, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.
Most observers guess the populace of Nogales, Sonora, at roughly 300,000. International commerce is a big part of Nogales' economy. More than 60 percent of Nogales' revenue tax comes from the estimated 30,000 Mexican shoppers crossing the border daily. Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, are home to one of the biggest maquiladora clusters. This enables American manufacturing plants on both sides of the border to take favor of favorable wage and operating costs and excellent transit and distribution networks. The Consulate-General of Mexico in Nogales is positioned on 135 W.
The United States Department of Homeland Security is a primary economic driver in the Ambos Nogales region, with thousands of employees working for both the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection.
Due to the large federal, state, and small-town police presence, Nogales has one of the highest police per-capita levels in the United States.
The biggest employers in Nogales are: City of Nogales Nogales Unified School District The town/city of Nogales has a wide range of improve facilities.
It is home to Nogales International Airport, which includes a 7,200 ft.
The Nogales region is served by the Nogales Unified School District for K-12 education, including 5 elementary schools, two middle schools, Nogales High School, and Pierson Vocational High School.
Santa Cruz County administrative offices, courts, and jail are positioned at 2150 N Congress Drive in Nogales.
The county of Santa Cruz and the town/city of Nogales have 200 properties listed in the National Register of Historic Sites, including Tumacacori National Monument first visited by Father Eusebio Kino in 1691 and Tubac Presidio, established by the Spanish in 1752 on an Indian village site.
Others include the Old Tubac Schoolhouse, Old Nogales City Hall, Santa Cruz County Courthouse, and Patagonia Railroad Depot.
The architecturally rich downtown region of Nogales near the Mexican American border offers a unique opportunity for visitors to experience the downtown border-style shopping setting similar to those from the mid-20th century.
Interesting architecture and historical homes along Crawford and Court Streets furnish a glimpse of border life at its peak amid that time period. A day trip to old Nogales, Sonora reveals many of the same architectural uniqueness.
Several state parks and recreation areas are positioned close to Nogales, including Patagonia State Park, Pena Blanca Lake, Parker Canyon Lake, and Coronado National Forest.
The Wine Country of Sonoita-Elgin is also conveniently positioned 20 miles east of Nogales where various vineyards offer wine tasting.
The City of Nogales operates under a council-manager form of government in which the mayor is propel to a 4-year term and has a single vote on the town/city council.
Nogales is positioned at the south end of Interstate 19.
Arizona State Route 82 joins Nogales with Patagonia and Sonoita.
Santa Cruz County operates the Nogales International Airport, a general use airport.
Nogales does not presently have any enhance transportation. Private bus companies Greyhound and TUFESA, as well as a several shuttle companies, connect Nogales with Tucson and points north. Nogales, Arizona, was the recording locale for the motion picture musical, Oklahoma!.
Nogales was chosen because it looked more like turn-of-the-century Oklahoma (when the musical is set) than anywhere in Oklahoma did in 1955, when the film was made.
A small part of William Gibson's short story, "The Gernsback Continuum" refers to the town/city of Nogales.
Nogales is a locale for recording some of the TV reality documentary, Border Wars, in particular in the second episode of that show's first season.
The Animal Planet reality show Law on the Border was filmed in Nogales, highlighting the K-9 units of the Nogales Police Department.[episode needed] The Hangover Part III was partially filmed in Nogales amid late 2012.
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On February 14, 2014, one of the biggest underground drug tunnels was identified in Nogales.
In August, 2014, the team from Nogales won the World Series for 50/70 Intermediate Little League by defeating the team from Puerto Rico. Battle of Nogales (1913) Battle of Nogales (1915) "NOGALES, ARIZONA (025921) )".
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