Polity Arizona Territory

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Was an organized incorporated territory of the United States.

Establishment

  • February 1863: Arizona Territory was organized from the half of New Mexico Territory west of 32° west from Washington.

Chronology

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1. Events

  • January 1867: The northwestern corner of Arizona Territory, west of the Colorado River and 37° west from Washington, was transferred to Nevada.
  • May 1868: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
  • June 1868: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
  • February 1874: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
  • March 1875: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
  • October 1878: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
  • June 1880: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
  • December 1882: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
  • May 1884: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
  • October 1886: The U.S. President establishes a reservation for Chehalis Indians in lieu of reserve set apart by Executive order of July 8, 1864.
  • February 1912: Arizona Territory was admitted as the forty-eighth state, Arizona.

Disestablishment

  • February 1912: Arizona Territory was admitted as the forty-eighth state, Arizona.

Selected Sources

  • Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 920
  • Van Zandt, Franklin K. (1976). Boundaries of the United States and the Several States: With Miscellaneous Geographic Information Concerning Areas, Altitudes, and Geographic Centers. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. P.165