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Tuba City cornfield, 1941.
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Tuba City (Navajo: To Naneesdizi) is an unincorporated town in Coconino County, Arizona, on Navajo lands, in the United States.
The populace of the census-designated place (CDP) was 8,611 at the 2010 census. It is the Navajo Nation's biggest community, slightly larger than Shiprock, New Mexico, and the command posts of the Western Navajo Agency.
The Navajo name for Tuba City, To Naneesdizi translates as "tangled waters", which probably refers to the many below-ground springs that are the origin of a several reservoirs.
Tuba City is positioned inside the Painted Desert near the edge of the Navajo Nation.
Tuba City is positioned about 50 miles (80 km) from the easterly entrance to Grand Canyon National Park.
Most of Tuba City's inhabitants are Navajo, with a small Hopi minority.
8 Tuba City in prominent culture Tuba City was established by the Mormons in 1872.
Tuba City drew Hopi, Navajo and Paiute Indians to the region because of its natural springs.
In 1956, Tuba City became a uranium boomtown, as the county-wide office for the Rare Metals Corporation and the Atomic Energy Commission. The foundry closed in 1966, and reclamation of the millsite and tailings pile was instead of in 1990. Tuba City is positioned at 36 7 45 N 111 14 19 W (36.129044, -111.238718). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 8.9 square miles (23 km2), all land.
Geologically, Tuba City sits upon the Glen Canyon Group from the early Jurassic (about 180-210 Ma) and on undivided superficial Quaternary deposits. Tuba City, owing to its locale in the precipitation shadow of the Mogollon Rim which keeps out moisture from the Gulf of California, has a cold desert climate (Koppen BWk) with hot, dry summers though less hot than Phoenix and cold, dry winters.
Climate data for Tuba City, Arizona (1971 to 2000) Average snowy days ( 0.1 inch) 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.1 Tuba City's median homehold income is $47,091, and the median income for a family was $37,813.
Dinosaur track in Tuba City The Explore Navajo Interactive Museum opened in 2007 in the center of Tuba City, next to the historic Tuba City Trading Post.
Tuba City is noted for dinosaur tracks, found about 5 miles (8 km) west.
Tuba City Trading Post, a store selling Navajo handmade crafts, has a building dating from 1905.
Tuba City is served by the Tuba City Airport.
The region is served by the Tuba City Unified School District, as well as a several autonomous schools inside the area.
Schools in Tuba City include: Tuba City High School Tuba City Boarding School established c - 1906 Tuba City Primary School Tuba City Jr.
Tuba City High School was awarded the 1982 National Cross Country Championship through the XC Legacy series presented through Milesplit.us in an accomplishment to begin filling in the nationwide rankings from 1980-1988[clarification needed].
Tuba City High School's varsity volleyball team are 2012 Champions.
Also, Tuba City High School's Cross-Country team took 1st in the state in 2013. Tuba City National Title Top 3 Photo Mary Morez, artist, was born near Tuba City Tuba City in prominent culture Jim Chee was the officer in charge of the Tuba City Navajo Police office, in Tony Hillerman's 1982 novel The Dark Wind.
Tuba City was filmed amid the six-episode run of the TV show Navajo Cops which aired on National Geographic Channel between March and May 2012.
It followed Navajo Nation Police patrolling the portion of the Navajo Nation, which spans over 27,000 square miles in three states.
A special episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition filmed in Tuba City aired on ABC in mid-2005.
Several scenes of Easy Rider, a 1969 American road movie, feature the terrain, views, and territory west of Tuba City in the Little Colorado River Valley, as well as to the east near Kayenta, AZ, and Monument Valley, Utah.
Leroy Van Dyke's song "Who's Gonna Run The Truck Stop In Tuba City When I'm Gone" was set in Tuba City, and mentions a Greyhound bus passing through daily en route to Burbank.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Tuba City CDP, Arizona".
Tuba City Mil - Amy Maestas, "Tuba City, Arizona", Inside Outside Southwest, July 2008, Tuba City millsite "TUBA CITY, AZ" (PDF).
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