Every Lake
Arizona
The Mogollon Rim cuts the state in two — pine plateau above, Sonoran Desert below.
Arizona in relief
The land itself, cut in six steps of birch from the lowlands to the high ground — the cities starred, the summit and rise on the title block. No counties, no roads: just the shape of Arizona.
About Arizona
Arizona is a rectangle with the Colorado River cut away from the western side, where the river makes the whole border with California and Nevada — and carves the Grand Canyon a mile deep and 277 river miles long across the north. The Mogollon Rim runs diagonally through the middle, a 200-mile escarpment where the Colorado Plateau drops away; above it is high pine forest and the San Francisco Peaks, below it the Sonoran Desert and the saguaro country around Phoenix and Tucson. Only fifteen counties, several of them larger than eastern states.
Arizona entered on February 14, 1912 as the 48th state, the last of the contiguous states and the end of the map as most people picture it. Phoenix, built on the canals of the Hohokam farmers who irrigated the same valley a thousand years earlier, became the territorial capital in 1889. The board carries Monument Valley and the Painted Desert in the north, Route 66 through Flagstaff and Winslow, and I-10 and I-17 meeting in the capital.
- Six layers of birch — the land in elevation steps
- The summit and total rise on the title block
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A double rule engraved around the edge
- Every county line and the state border
- The interstates with their shields — 12 on this board
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A mile ruler engraved around the frame
