- Circle City, Arizona
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Circle City, Arizona — Unincorporated community — Location of Circle City in Maricopa County, Arizona
Coordinates: 33°48′57″N 112°34′49″W / 33.81583°N 112.58028°WCoordinates: 33°48′57″N 112°34′49″W / 33.81583°N 112.58028°W Country United States State Arizona County Maricopa Population (2000) - Total 1,402 Time zone Mountain (MST) (UTC-7) ZIP codes FIPS code GNIS feature ID 2956[1] Circle City is an unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. 14 miles northwest of Surprise, Arizona, on U.S. Route 60. As of 2000 it has a population of 1402, with 753 households.[2]
The development was built in the late 1950s by the The Workmen's Circle, a Jewish fraternal and mutual aid society with roots in the Socialist movement of the early 20th century, as a retirement community for its aging members.[3] Streets in the community are named for figures important to the Circle's membership, including Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz; Baruch Charney Vladeck, a labor leader and manager of the Jewish Daily Forward; New York Socialist politicians August Claessens, Morris Hillquit, and Meyer London; Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor; and, four-time Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs.
References
- ^ "Circle City". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:2956.
- ^ http://www.zipareacode.net/circle-city-az.htm
- ^ Jewish Currents. July-August, 1958, p.33.
Categories:- Unincorporated communities in Maricopa County, Arizona
- Arizona geography stubs
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