Sacaton
Sacaton is a census-designated place in Pinal County, Arizona, United States. The population was 3,254 at the 2020 census. It is the capital of the Gila River Indian Community.Photo: Marine 69-71, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 2,670 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Pinal County, Arizona, United States
- Also known as: “El Tusonimo”, “La Encarnacion”, “Pima Agency”, “Sacaton / Ge’e Ki:”, “Sacaton, Arizona”, “Sacaton, AZ”, “San Juan Capistrano”, “Soacson”, “Tucsonimon”, “Tusonimo”, “Uturitu”, “Vturituc”, and “Zacatone Camp”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sacaton and Upper Santan Village.
Sacaton
Locality
Sacaton or Socatoon was a village of the Maricopa people, established above the Pima Villages, after the June 1, 1857, in the Battle of Pima Butte where it appears a few months later in the 1857 Chapman Census. Sacaton is situated 2 miles west of Sacaton.
Upper Santan Village
Hamlet
Upper Santan Village is a census-designated place in Pinal County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. The population was 495 at the 2010 census. Upper Santan Village is situated 3 miles north of Sacaton.
Olberg
Hamlet
Olberg is a populated place situated in Pinal County, Arizona, United States. The settlement was founded in 1903, and named after Colonel C.R. Olberg, the chief engineer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and as such supervised the construction of the Coolidge Dam which was built by the BIA. Olberg is situated 3½ miles east of Sacaton.
Sacaton
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States, unincorporated community, and locality
- Location: Pinal County, Arizona, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.07672° or 33° 4′ 36″ northLongitude
-111.7393° or 111° 44′ 22″ westPopulation
2,670Elevation
1,283 feet (391 metres)Open location code
855C37G6+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 150971264OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5312393Wikidata ID
Q1939301
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Sacaton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ساكاتون”
- Basque: “Sacaton”
- Catalan: “Sacaton”
- Cebuano: “Sacaton”
- Chechen: “Сакатон”
- Chinese: “Sacaton”
- Chinese: “薩卡頓”
- Croatian: “Sacaton, Arizona”
- Croatian: “Sacaton”
- Dutch: “Sacaton”
- French: “Sacaton”
- German: “Sacaton”
- Gilaki: “ساکاتن (آريزؤنا)”
- Gilaki: “ساکاتن”
- Igbo: “Sacaton, Arizona”
- Igbo: “Sacaton”
- Irish: “Sacaton”
- Italian: “Sacaton”
- Japanese: “サカトン”
- Ladin: “Sacaton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sacaton”
- Newari: “स्याकाटन (एरिजोना)”
- Newari: “स्याकाटन, एरिजोना”
- Newari: “स्याकाटन”
- Persian: “ساکتون، آریزونا”
- Persian: “ساکتون”
- Polish: “Sacaton”
- Portuguese: “Sacaton”
- Serbian: “Сакатон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sacaton, Arizona”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sacaton”
- South Azerbaijani: “ساکتون، آریزونا”
- Spanish: “Sacaton (Arizona)”
- Spanish: “Sacaton”
- Tatar: “Сакатон”
- Turkish: “Sacaton”
- Ukrainian: “Сакатон”
- Urdu: “سکتوں ، ایریزونا”
- Urdu: “سکتوں”
- Volapük: “Sacaton”
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