Territorial evolution of Arizona

The following timeline traces the territorial evolution of the U.S. State of Arizona.

Timeline

• Historical territorial claims of Spain in the present State of Arizona:
• Nueva Vizcaya, 1562–1821
• Santa Fé de Nuevo Méjico, 1598–1821
• Sonora y Sinaloa, 1732–1821
• Treaty of Córdoba of 1821
• Historical territorial claims of Mexico in the present State of Arizona:
• Santa Fé de Nuevo México, 1821–1848
• Sonora y Sinaloa (Estado de Occidente), 1824–1830
• Sonora since 1830
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848
• Gadsden Purchase of 1853
• Historical political divisions of the United States in the present State of Arizona:
• Unorganized territory created by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848–1850
• Compromise of 1850
• State of Deseret (extralegal), 1849–1850
• Territory of New Mexico, 1850–1912
• Gadsden Purchase of 1853
• American Civil War, 1861–1865
• Arizona Territory (CSA), 1861–1865
• Territory of Arizona, 1863–1912
• North-western corner of the Arizona Territory is transferred to the State of Nevada, 1867
• State of Arizona since February 14, 1912
• Mexican Boundary Exchanges: In 1927 under the Banco Convention of 1905, the U.S. acquired two bancos from Mexico at the Colorado River border with Arizona. Farmers Banco, covering , a part of the Cocopah Indian Reservation at , was ceded to the U.S. with controversy. Fain Banco () at also became U.S. soil.

See also

• History of Arizona
• Territorial evolution of the United States

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