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Arizona Cities
- Tempe
Tempe (tem-PEE), city (1990 pop. 141,865), Maricopa co., S Ariz., on Salt R., 7 mi/11.3 km ESE of Phoenix; 33°23'N 111°55'W. It has been one of the fastest-growing U.S. cities; its pop. more than doubled bet. 1970 and 1990. City is now surrounded by other municipalities: Scottsdale (N), Mesa (E), Chandler (S), Phoenix (W). Tempe is a health resort and an agr. center, with lands irrigated by the Salt R. project (Western Canal crosses city in S); mfg. (machinery, electrical equip., glass, rubber, paper and plastic prods., apparel, chemicals, communications equip., tools). The city is also the seat of Arizona State Univ., which has expanded rapidly to become a principal economic factor in Tempe’s growth. The univ.’s auditorium was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Tempe is home to a Natl. Football League team, the Ariz. Cardinals, at Ariz. State Univ.’s Sun Devil Stadium; training camp of Calif. Angels baseball team. Native Amer. ruins are nearby. To N, across the Salt R. is Papago City Park (Phoenix) including Phoenix Zoo; Phoenix South Mt. Park to W. Inc. 1894.
from The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000.
The first settlers to move to the Tempe area, south of the Salt River and east of Phoenix, were Hispanic families from southern Arizona. In 1872, some of these Mexican settlers founded a town called San Pablo east of Tempe Butte.
Another settlement, known as Hayden's Ferry, developed west of Tempe Butte.
Both settlements grew quickly and soon formed one community. The town was named Tempe in 1879 by "Lord" Darrell Duppa who said the sight of the butte, the wide river and the nearby expanse of green fields, reminded him of the Vale of Tempe in ancient Greece.
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