Kansas Settlement, Arizona

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Kansas Settlement, Arizona
Populated place
Kansas Settlement is located in Arizona
Kansas Settlement
Kansas Settlement
Location within the state of Arizona
Coordinates: 32°03′54″N 109°45′46″W / 32.06500°N 109.76278°W / 32.06500; -109.76278Coordinates: 32°03′54″N 109°45′46″W / 32.06500°N 109.76278°W / 32.06500; -109.76278
CountryUnited States
StateArizona
CountyCochise
Elevation
[1]
4,216 ft (1,285 m)
Time zoneUTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (MST)
Area code(s)520
FIPS code04-36850
GNIS feature ID24476

Kansas Settlement is a populated place located in Sulfer Springs Valley in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.[2] It has an estimated elevation of 4,216 feet (1,285 m) above sea level.[1]

After World War II, farming around Kansas Settlement expanded greatly, due to opening markets and better irrigation techniques.[3] However, by 1985 less than 25% of the area's irrigated farmland was still in production. The largest reason for this was the dropping levels of aquifers, which significantly increased the cost of pumping water for irrigation.[4] In one year alone, 1963, water levels in Kansas Settlement dropped by fifty feet.[5] One of the crops grown in and around Kansas Settlement are orchards of Western Schley pecans. Between May 2005 and December 2008, a large study was done in Kansas Settlement on the effects of nitrogen fertilization on the Western Schley pecan.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Feature Detail Report for: Kansas Settlement". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ^ "Kansas Settlement (in Cochise County, AZ) Populated Place Profile". AZ Hometown Locator. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  3. ^ "Arizona farming". Arizona Highways. Phoenix, Arizona: Arizona Highway Department. 57. 1981.
  4. ^ Marsten, Ed (1987). Western Water Made Simple. Washington, DC: Island Press. pp. 42–43. ISBN 0933280394.
  5. ^ Harshbarger, John William (1966). "Groundwater". Arizona Water. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office (1648): 71. ISBN 0933280394.
  6. ^ Koch, C. (2009). Nutritional Studies on Pecans. Tucson, Arizona. p. 91. ISBN 978-1109127881.
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