PINAL COUNTY ARIZONA

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SOME INTERESTING FACTS

• Pinal County's 5374 square miles makes it almost the size of Connecticut, and larger than Delaware or Rhode Island.

• The highest elevation in Pinal County is Apache Peak, which rises to an elevation of 6441 feet. The lowest point is probably near the town of Santa Cruz on the Gila River Indian Reservation at an elevation of 1037 feet.

• The Lost Dutchman's Mine may be in Pinal County. Jacob Walz is said to have found his riches in the Superstition Mountains within sight of Weaver's Needle, both of which are located within the northern border of Pinal County.

• Tom Mix died in Pinal County when his Cord 812 Phaeton crashed in a wash near Florence. Tom was a pallbearer at the funeral of Wyatt Earp.

• Celia Ann Blaylock "Mattie" Earp, age 40, the common law wife of Wyatt Earp, died in Pinal County on 3 Jul 1888. She is buried near Superior, Arizona in the Pinal cemetery in the hills high above Superior, near the site of the ghost town of Pinal. Mattie was born in 1848 in Fairfax, Linn County, Iowa.

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