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Graham County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,220,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/04/04009.html )〕 making it the third-least populous county in Arizona. The county seat is Safford.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Graham County composes the Safford, AZ Micropolitan Statistical Area. The county is home to several organizations including Eastern Arizona College and the Mount Graham International Observatory, which includes one of the world's largest and most powerful telescopes. Graham County is also home to the Arizona Salsa Trail and the annual Salsa Fest.〔http://www.salsatrail.com/〕 Graham County contains part of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. ==History== Joseph Knight Rogers, an early settler in the area, and a member of the Arizona Territorial Legislature, is known as the father of Graham County. He introduced the bill in the territorial legislature creating Graham County.〔http://web.archive.org/web/20110717165448/http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2004/04/21/news/leisure/leisure08.txt〕 Graham County was created from southern Apache County and eastern Pima County on March 10, 1881.〔http://cip.azlibrary.gov/Collection.aspx?CollID=1202〕 Initially, the county seat was located in the city of Safford but was later moved to Solomonville in 1883. This change was undone in 1915, returning the county seat to Safford.〔Walker, Henry (1986). "Historical Atlas of Arizona", p.32. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. ISBN 978-0806120249.〕 Graham County is named after the mountain by the same name and was the first Arizonan county to break the tradition of naming counties for Native Americans. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Graham County, Arizona」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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