Queens Well, Arizona
Populated place
Queens Well is located in Arizona
Queens Well
Queens Well
Location within the state of Arizona
Queens Well is located in the United States
Queens Well
Queens Well
Queens Well (the United States)
Coordinates: 32°16′03″N 111°38′00″W / 32.26750°N 111.63333°W / 32.26750; -111.63333
CountryUnited States
StateArizona
CountyPima
Elevation
[1]
2,041 ft (622 m)
Time zoneUTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (MST)
Area code520
GNIS feature ID24193

Queens Well is a populated place in Pima County, Arizona.[2] It has an estimated elevation of 2,041 feet (622 m) above sea level.[1] Queens Well is located in the Schuk Toak District[3] on the east side of the Tohono O’odham Nation.[4][5] The area has had multiple solar powered wells installed in the 1970's and 1980's.[6][7]

In the 2023 Tohono O'odham Nation Election Katrina Lopez was elected as the community representative for Queens Well.[8]

O'odham children from Queen's Well performing a traditional dance

References

  1. 1 2 "Feature Detail Report for: Queens Well". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ "Queens Well (in Pima County, AZ) Populated Place Profile". AZ Hometown Locator. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ Winters, Harry J.; Yetman, David (2020). "How a Geological Engineer Became Fluent in 'O'odham and Published an Authoritative Tome on the 'O'odham Language of Place". Journal of the Southwest. 62 (3): 618–678. doi:10.1353/jsw.2020.0019. ISSN 2158-1371.
  4. ↑ Dart, Allen (1987). Archaeological Studies of the Avra Valley, Arizona, for the Papago Water Supply Project, Volume 1: Class III Archaeological Surveys on the Tohono O'Odham Indian Reservation. Richard Anduze, U. S. Bureau Of Reclamation. doi:10.6067/XCV8428069.
  5. ↑ McCombs, Brady (2008-06-27). "Border agents find 5 dead, rescue more than a dozen". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
  6. ↑ McKenzie, Dan (1985). Range Water Pumping Systems. San Dimas, California, United States of America: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Equipment Development Center. p. 15.
  7. ↑ Bentley, Jeffery W. (1987). "Water Harvesting on the Papago Reservation: Experimental Agricultural Technology in the Guise of Development". Human Organization. 46 (2): 141–146. ISSN 0018-7259.
  8. ↑ "TON Elections". www.tonelections.org. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
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