USA Mega series #3; Arizona Traditional Cache

This is a one of a series of 51 caches (50 traditional (States) and a puzzle bonus (USA)) that will take you around the town of Thornbury.

All the caches are to do with the USA and will give you info on all the states.

                                             ARIZONA         

• Origin of name: A Spanish version of the Pima Indian word Arizonac foe “place of the small spring” or from the Aztecs arizuma meaning “silver bearing”
• Capital: Phoenix
• Largest city: Phoenix
• Population: 6,626,624 (2013 est) Ranked 15^th in the US.
• Nicknames: The Grand Canyon state; The copper state.
• Highest point: Humphreys peak, 12,663 ft
• Admission to union: February 14^th, 1912 (48^th)
• State motto: God enriches
• State song: Arizona
• State tree: Palo Verde
• State flower: Saguaro cactus blossom
• State bird: Cactus wren
• Area: 113,998 Ranked 6th in the US
  
   

Did you know……...

      1) Grand Canyon's Flaming Gorge got its name for its blazing red and orange,

          Twelve-hundred-foot-high walls.  

2) Arizona leads the nation in copper production.

3) The original London Bridge was shipped stone-by-stone and reconstructed in Lake Havasu City.

4) Grand Canyon's Marble Canyon got its name from its thousand-foot-thick seam of marble and for its walls eroded to a polished glass finish.

5) Tombstone, Ruby, Gillette, and Gunsight are among the ghost towns scattered throughout the state.