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Queens Well is a populated place in Pima County, Arizona.[2] It has an estimated elevation of 2,041 feet (622 m) above sea level.[1] Queens Well is located in the Schuk Toak District[3] on the east side of the Tohono O’odham Nation.[4][5] The area had multiple solar powered wells installed in the 1970s and 1980s.[6][7]

In the 2023 Tohono O'odham Nation Election, Katrina Lopez was elected as the community representative for Queens Well.[8]

O'odham children from Queen's Well performing a traditional dance

References

  1. ^ a b "Feature Detail Report for: Queens Well". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ "Queens Well (in Pima County, AZ) Populated Place Profile". AZ Hometown Locator. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  3. ^ Winters, Harry J.; Yetman, David (2020). "How a Geological Engineer Became Fluent in 'O'odham and Published an Authoritative Tome on the 'O'odham Language of Place". Journal of the Southwest. 62 (3): 618–678. doi:10.1353/jsw.2020.0019. ISSN 2158-1371. S2CID 229355565.
  4. ^ Dart, Allen (1987). Archaeological Studies of the Avra Valley, Arizona, for the Papago Water Supply Project, Volume 1: Class III Archaeological Surveys on the Tohono O'Odham Indian Reservation. Richard Anduze, U. S. Bureau Of Reclamation. doi:10.6067/XCV8428069.
  5. ^ McCombs, Brady (2008-06-27). "Border agents find 5 dead, rescue more than a dozen". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
  6. ^ McKenzie, Dan (1985). Range Water Pumping Systems. San Dimas, California, United States of America: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Equipment Development Center. p. 15.
  7. ^ Bentley, Jeffery W. (1987). "Water Harvesting on the Papago Reservation: Experimental Agricultural Technology in the Guise of Development". Human Organization. 46 (2): 141–146. doi:10.17730/humo.46.2.xxt8021374516241. ISSN 0018-7259. JSTOR 44126706.
  8. ^ "TON Elections". www.tonelections.org. Retrieved 2023-12-15.