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Arizona
Gila County

Payson

Payson is a town in Gila County, . Known as the "Heart of Arizona," it is a gateway to the Colorado Plateau and the Mogollon Rim in and .
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  • Type: Town with 16,400 residents
  • Description: town in Gila County, Arizona, United States
  • Also known as: “Heart of Arizona”, “Payson, Arizona”, and “Payson, AZ”
  • Postal codes: 85541 and 85547

Places of Interest

Highlights include Payson Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Richard N Horne, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a public located 1 mile west of the central business district of Payson, a town in , , . The airport covers 80 acres and has one runway and one helipad.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mesa del Caballo and Star Valley.

Village
is a census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 765 at the 2010 census. is situated 3½ miles northeast of Payson.

Village
is a town in , United States, incorporated in 2005. Before incorporation, it was a census-designated place. As of the 2020 census the population of the town was 2,484. is situated 3½ miles east of Payson.

Payson

Latitude
34.24065° or 34° 14′ 26″ north
Longitude
-111.32303° or 111° 19′ 23″ west
Population
16,400
Elevation
4,921 feet (1,500 metres)
IATA airport code
PJB
United Nations Location Code
US PJB
Open location code
856C6MRG+7Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150974083
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5308305
Wiki­data ID
Q985250
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Payson” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بايسون”
  • Basque: “Payson”
  • Bulgarian: “Пейсън”
  • Catalan: “Payson”
  • Cebuano: “Payson”
  • Chechen: “Пейсон”
  • Chinese: “Payson”
  • Chinese: “佩森”
  • Croatian: “Payson, Arizona”
  • Croatian: “Payson”
  • Danish: “Payson”
  • Dutch: “Payson”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بايسون”
  • French: “Payson”
  • German: “Payson”
  • Gilaki: “پیسون (آريزؤنا)”
  • Gilaki: “پیسون”
  • Haitian: “Payson, Arizona”
  • Haitian: “Payson”
  • Hungarian: “Payson”
  • Ido: “Payson, Arizona”
  • Ido: “Payson”
  • Italian: “Payson”
  • Japanese: “ペイソン”
  • Korean: “페이슨”
  • Ladin: “Payson”
  • Mazanderani: “پیزان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Payson”
  • Navajo: “Ndzistsooí”
  • Newari: “पेसन (एरिजोना)”
  • Newari: “पेसन, एरिजोना”
  • Newari: “पेसन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Payson”
  • Norwegian: “Payson”
  • Persian: “پیزان، آریزونا”
  • Persian: “پیزان، اریزونا”
  • Persian: “پیزان”
  • Persian: “پیزن، آریزونا”
  • Persian: “پیزن”
  • Polish: “Payson”
  • Portuguese: “Payson”
  • Russian: “Пейсон”
  • Serbian: “Payson”
  • Serbian: “Pejson”
  • Serbian: “Пејсон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Payson, Arizona”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Payson”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پایسون، آریزونا”
  • Spanish: “Corazón de Arizona”
  • Spanish: “Payson (Arizona)”
  • Spanish: “Payson”
  • Swedish: “Payson, Arizona”
  • Swedish: “Payson”
  • Tatar: “Пейсон”
  • Turkish: “Payson, Arizona”
  • Turkish: “Payson”
  • Ukrainian: “Пейсон”
  • Urdu: “پئیسن، ایریزونا”
  • Urdu: “پئیسن”
  • Volapük: “Payson”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Payson, Arizona”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Payson”
  • Welsh: “Payson, Arizona”
  • Welsh: “Payson”

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