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| Tonto Basin, Arizona | |
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| Coordinates: 33°50′24″N 111°17′5″W / 33.84°N 111.28472°WCoordinates: 33°50′24″N 111°17′5″W / 33.84°N 111.28472°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| County | Gila |
| Area | |
| • Total | 31.4 sq mi (81.2 km2) |
| • Land | 31.4 sq mi (81.2 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 2,238 ft (682 m) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 840 |
| • Density | 26.6/sq mi (10.3/km2) |
| Time zone | MST (no DST) (UTC-7) |
| ZIP code | 85553 |
| Area code(s) | 928 |
| FIPS code | 04-74610 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1853170 |
Tonto Basin is a census-designated place (CDP) in Gila County, Arizona, United States. The population was 840 at the 2000 census.
Within Tonto Basin is located the unincorporated community of Punkin Center.
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Geography [link]
Tonto Basin is located at 33°50′24″N 111°17′5″W / 33.84°N 111.28472°W (33.839953, -111.284734).[1]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 31.4 square miles (81 km2), all of it land.
Demographics [link]
As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 840 people, 439 households, and 262 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 26.8 people per square mile (10.3/km²). There were 726 housing units at an average density of 23.1/sq mi (8.9/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.07% White, 1.43% Native American, 0.95% from other races, and 1.55% from two or more races. 2.02% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 439 households out of which 9.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.0% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.3% were non-families. 33.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.91 and the average family size was 2.38.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 10.4% under the age of 18, 3.6% from 18 to 24, 13.5% from 25 to 44, 39.9% from 45 to 64, and 32.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 58 years. For every 100 females there were 107.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.0 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $23,398, and the median income for a family was $29,091. Males had a median income of $30,125 versus $17,500 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $15,157. About 15.9% of families and 18.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16.9% of those under age 18 and 12.3% of those age 65 or over.
See also [link]
- Battle of Turret Peak
- Battle of Salt River Canyon
- Pleasant Valley War (also sometimes called the Tonto Basin War or Feud) was an 1886 Arizona range war between two feuding families, the cattle-herding Grahams and the sheep-herding Tewksburys.
- Frederick Russell Burnham participated on the losing side in the real-life Tonto Basin Feud and narrowly escaped alive. After the feud, he went home to California and left for Africa only a few years later.[3][4]
- Tonto Basin Outlaws (1941) - A film based very loosely on the Tonto Basin Feud. Cowboys are out to stop a cattle-rustling scandal soon after they enlist with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders.[5] In the real-life feud, one man did go on to join the Rough Riders.[3]
- To the Last Man (film) is a 1933 Henry Hathaway film based on the Zane Grey novel starring Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston, Buster Crabbe, Barton MacLane, Noah Beery, Shirley Temple, and Eugenie Besserer.
Popular culture [link]
According to an NPR story on the Lone Ranger, Tonto Basin is the inspiration of Tonto, the native American companion to the Lone Ranger.
References [link]
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. https://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ a b Burnham, Frederick Russell (1926). Scouting on Two Continents. New York: Doubleday, Page and Co. Chapters 3 & 4. ASIN B000F1UKOA.
- ^ R. R. Money (April 1962). "Tonto Basin Feud". Blackwood's Magazine 291. ISSN 0006-436X.
- ^ "Tonto Basin Outlaws (1941)". Internet Movie Database. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034300/. Retrieved 2007-07-07.
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Tonto Basin
The Tonto Basin, also known as Pleasant Valley, covers the main drainage of Tonto Creek and its tributaries in central Arizona, at the southwest of the Mogollon Rim, the higher elevation transition zone across central and eastern Arizona.
Tonto Basin is mostly north-south trending and outflows into the Salt River (Arizona) at the extensive canyon reservoir called Theodore Roosevelt Lake-(satellite photo).
Arizona Route 188 traverses the lower Tonto Basin on the southwest side of Theodore Roosevelt Lake; it then merges at the water divide northeast of the Mazatzals, with State route 87 which proceeds to Payson and further to Kohls Ranch and Christopher Creek at the basin headwaters at the foot of the Mogollon Rim.
Regional geography
The Tonto Basin is Y-shaped at its headwaters. East are the Sierra Ancha range, part of the Mogollon Rim, and Tonto Creek draining from the northeast. West lies the Mazatzal Mountains and a ridgeline of hills on the north, the Limestone Hills on the south-side of the East Verde River; this is the water divide at the west of the Y-shape, a much shorter drainage basin, dwarfing the major upper Tonto Creek drainage.
Tonto Basin (novel)
For the geographical place see Tonto Basin
Tonto Basin is a western novel written by Zane Grey.
Origin
Tonto Basin is the original version of the shorter novel To The Last Man (1921). Grey submitted the manuscript of Tonto Basin to the magazine The Country Gentleman, which published it in serialization as To the Last Man from May 28, 1921 through July 30, 1921. This was a much shorter version of the original leaving out much of the backstory and character development. This shorter version was published as a book by Harper Brothers in 1921.
Plot introduction
A story of a feud between two families, the evil it causes, and the power of love to transcend all.
Plot summary
The story begins with 24-year-old Jean Isbel in the last stages of a multi-week trip from Oregon to the frontier in Arizona where his family had moved four years earlier to start a cattle ranch. As he nears his destination he meets a woman in the woods, and falls in love at first sight. As they part they learn that they are mortal enemies. She is Ellen Jorth, and her family is locked in a deadly feud with his.
Tonto+
Tonto+ is a 2007 EP by Battles. It consists of a CD and a DVD. The CD contains the title track, remixes, and live performances, and the DVD has videos for the title track and "Atlas", another song off Battles' debut album Mirrored.
The cover resembles Section 25's From the Hip.
Track listing
Release history
References
External links
Tonto
Tonto is a fictional character, the either Potawatomi or Comanche companion of the Lone Ranger, a popular American Western character created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. Tonto has appeared in radio and television series and other presentations of the characters' adventures righting wrongs in 19th century western America.
In Spanish, "tonto" translates as "moron" or "fool". So in the Spanish dubbed version, the character is called "Toro" (Spanish for "bull") or "Ponto". In the Italian version the original name is retained, despite its meaning in Italian is the same as in Spanish.
Tonto made his first appearance on the 11th episode of the radio show, which originated on the Detroit, Michigan, radio station WXYZ. Though he became well known as the Lone Ranger's friend, Tonto was originally created just so the Lone Ranger would have someone with whom to talk. Throughout the radio run (which spanned 21 years), with only a few exceptions, Tonto was played by American actor John Todd.
Tonto (Metabarons)
Tonto is the fictional robot servant of the Castaka family since the time of Aghnar, and the narrator of their tale in the Metabarons comic book.
Expanded History
The Metabarons Universe Guide, a publication meant to help roleplayers get more into the Metabarons characters, gives some more insides on the personal history of Tonto. Once a defective robosurgeon (showing major flaws in his less-than-accondiscendent personality) was issued by Hospital Planet's production lines, and scheduled for dismantling. Othon met him while the little robosurgeon was treating Bari, his crippled son. Unable to wait for the surgery results, Othon forced Tonto into let him see his son, and the droid, displaying his unpredictable judgment, not only agreed, but swore eternal alliance to his new master's family, gaining his protection and his safety in the process. He became the caretaker of the Metabunker, the gigantic flying fortress of the Metabarons (totally attuned to his mental orders), and carried out all Metabarons surgical needs (for example implanting robotic eyes into Dona Vincenta head after she tore out hers, and giving pediatric care to all babies born in the family). Albeit his major flaws makes him sanctimonious and always insofferent to discipline, Tonto gained the trust of all Metabarons, even gaining the title of "best and only friend" of Nameless, the last one. When Nameless "reprogrammed" Steelhead, his villainous grandfather turned almost completely into a robot, into being Lothar, the mindwiped servant, Tonto took him as his personal assistant, each day telling him stories from the Metabaron's lore, both to please his ego and to quell his boredom.
