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