Why, Arizona: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
imported>Monkeysmashingkeyboards m Reverted edits by Wowbroareuseriousrntwin (talk) (WS) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{short description|Unincorporated community in Pima County, Arizona, United States}} | {{short description|Unincorporated community in Pima County, Arizona, United States}} | ||
{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} | |||
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}} | {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}} | ||
| Line 77: | Line 78: | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
The town derives its name from the | The town derives its name from the two major [[highways]], State Routes [[Arizona State Route 85|85]] and [[Arizona State Route 86|86]], that once intersected in a [[Three-way junction|Y-intersection]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theactivetimes.com/travel/oddest-named-town-every-state | title=The Oddest Named Town in Every State | publisher=The Active Times | date=April 19, 2018 | access-date=July 3, 2019}}</ref> It is rumored that when named, state law required city names to have at least three letters, so the town's founders named the town "Why" as opposed to simply calling it "Y." The [[Arizona Department of Transportation]] (ADOT) later eliminated the old Y-intersection for traffic safety and made a conventional [[T-intersection|intersection]] south of the original.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://arizonaoddities.com/2014/01/why-why-is-why/|title = Why Why is Why|date = January 25, 2014|access-date = October 4, 2018|archive-date = July 2, 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220702132543/https://arizonaoddities.com/2014/01/why-why-is-why/|url-status = dead}}</ref> | ||
''Why'' has frequently been put on lists of [[Place names considered unusual|unusual place names]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=29zh3dIgmv8C&pg=PR12 | title=Welcome to Horneytown, North Carolina, Population: 15: An insider's guide to 201 of the world's weirdest and wildest places | publisher=Adams Media | author=Parker, Quentin | year=2010 | page=xii | isbn=9781440507397 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/2014/01/13/american-place-name-pronunciations-guide-brits/ | title=No, Arkansas Doesn't Sound the Way It Looks: A Guide to Pronouncing U.S. Place Names | publisher=BBC America | date=January 13, 2014 | access-date=July 14, 2014 | author=Hargis, Toni}}</ref> | |||
==Services== | ==Services== | ||
Latest revision as of 20:21, 9 December 2025
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates
Script error: No such module "Settlement short description".Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Expression error: Unexpected < operator.
WhyTemplate:Efn is an unincorporated rural community in Pima County, Arizona, United States. It lies near the western border of the Tohono Oʼodham Indian Reservation and due north of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Southern Arizona. It is approximately Script error: No such module "convert". north of the Mexican border where Lukeville, Arizona, and Sonoyta, Sonora, Mexico, border each other, and Script error: No such module "convert". south of Ajo, Arizona.
The population in Why at the 2020 census was about 122 people.[1]
History
The town derives its name from the two major highways, State Routes 85 and 86, that once intersected in a Y-intersection.[2] It is rumored that when named, state law required city names to have at least three letters, so the town's founders named the town "Why" as opposed to simply calling it "Y." The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) later eliminated the old Y-intersection for traffic safety and made a conventional intersection south of the original.[3]
Why has frequently been put on lists of unusual place names.[4][5]
Services
Why is not in a school district. The closest district is the Ajo Unified School District.[6]
Demographics
<templatestyles src="US Census population/styles.css"/>
| Census | Pop. | Template:Sronly | %± |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 116 | — | |
| 2010 | 167 | Script error: No such module "String".% | |
| 2020 | 122 | Script error: No such module "String".% | |
| U.S. Decennial Census[1] | |||
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Education
A portion of Why is in the Indian Oasis-Baboquivari Unified School District,[7] while another is not in any school district.[8] The Pima County School Superintendent arranges for education of K-12 students living in areas without school districts, and that office arranges for transportation to the Ajo Unified School District to the Why areas not in any school district.[9]
See also
Notes
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". - Text list
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". - Page 1 - Text list: "UNI 99997[...]School District Not Defined" - The 2020 map shows no school district label.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^ This is the sum of the populations of Blocks 1131–1153, Census Tract 49, Pima County, Arizona according to US Census U.S. Census website.
External links
Script error: No such module "Navbox". Template:Authority control