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File Number
8278.100
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Title 1 - Yuma Desalter
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Colorado Mainstem
Date
4/1/1977
Author
USDOI/BOR
Title
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Project - Title I Division - Desalting Complex Unit, Arizona - Status Report
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<br />19.007 people resided in Yuma: an additional 9.012 inhabitants resided in the <br />unincorporated areas immediately adjacent to the city. <br />The extensive irrigation projects which surround Yuma contain within their <br />bOllndaries several small towns and a number of rural inhabitants. Some of the County <br />Divisions established for YlIma COllnty by the United States Censlls BlIreau encompass <br />the boundaries of these projects undo in 1970. indicated that 9,61 I people resided in <br />the areas of the Valley Division-Yuma Project. the YlIma Mesa Division-Gila Project. and <br />the YlIma Auxiliary Project. Since most of the area which is not project land is desert <br />and relatively IIninhabited. nearly all of these people are consifiered to resirle in the small <br />towns or on farms within the boundaries of these projects. <br />The Wellton-Mohawk Division, Gila Project, begins abollt 10 miles east of Yuma. <br />at the Wellton-Mohawk Canal head works. and extends roughly SO miles east to Texas <br />Hill. following the course of the Gila River. Except for some very small towns with <br />nominal populations further east from Texas Hill, along the river. the majority of people <br />within the Census Bureall's Wellton Division reside on the farms and in the small towns <br />of the Wellton-Mohawk Division. The population of this COU"ty Division decreased 21 <br />percent in the 1960's, und stood at 3,618 in 1970. <br />Characteristics of the Yuma area population by race, sex. and age show that <br />approximately 94 percent of the people (48.141) are Callcasoid: 3 percent (1,722) are <br />Negro; and the remaining 3 percent are c<Jmprised of American Indian, Jupanese, Chinese. <br />Filipino. and all other races. Fifty-two percent (26.490101' the area's inhabitants are male. <br />and 48 perce'nl (14.758) are female. The medi<lll age in the area is 23.6 years. with 40.6 <br />percent of the people under 18 years of age and 6.7 percent over 65. <br />Spanish-speaking people constitute a significant YlIma area community. Those <br />who speak the language as their ,wtive tongue account for 25 percent (7,168) of the <br />mc'lropolitan YlIma population. Additional Spun ish-speaking people reside On the <br />surrounding agricultural.pro.kcts, and a sizable number of Mexican 'nigrant farm workers <br />seasonally OCCIIPy the area. Further communities of note are the Cocopah Tribe of Indians. <br />who retain three small reservations in the vicinity of Yuma: a large number of government <br />1:"!n!"))oypi"" hoth I'iviliall :mrl miJit.ary; and an extensive numher of tourists. estimated to <br />be as great as 10.000 people at the height of the season. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />21 <br />
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