
It became a small market town providing services for families involved in the agricultural industry. In 1912, both the Phoenix Street Railway Company and a competitor, the Salt River Valley Electric Railway Company, proposed building streetcar lines to Scottsdale, but due to an economic downturn, neither was built.īetween 19, due to the construction of the Granite Reef and Roosevelt dams (in 19, respectively), Scottsdale's population experienced a boom, growing steadily during those years. While not in its original building, Cavalliere's has been in continuous operation since that time. Also in 1909, Cavalliere's Blacksmith Shop opened in downtown Scottsdale, and the original schoolhouse was replaced by the much more expansive Little Red Schoolhouse, which stands to this day. In the early 1900s the community supported an artists and writers culture, culminating in the opening of the region's first resort in 1909, the Ingleside Inn, just south of the Arizona Canal and west of the Crosscut Canal (Indian School Road at about 64th Street) in what is today Scottsdale. Davis, which also housed the first post office for Scottsdale in 1897. In 1896, the Scottsdale Public School system was established, and opened the first schoolhouse, which was followed by the opening of the first general store by J. Many Pima and Maricopa people live in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, which borders Scottsdale to the south and east. The Pima who live in Scottsdale today reside in modern houses, not traditional dwellings. Until the late 1960s, there was a still-occupied traditional dwelling on the southeast corner of Indian Bend Road and Hayden Road.

Scottsdale was originally a Pima village known as Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ, meaning "rotting hay". The city is bordered by the city of Phoenix to the West, Tonto National Forest to the North, the McDowell Mountains to the East, and the Salt River to the South. Scottsdale is 31 miles from its Northern to Southern-most edge, and covers 184.5 square miles. Over the past two decades, it has been one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. Its slogan is "The West's Most Western Town".


At the 2020 census, the population was 241,361, which had grown from 217,385 in 2010. Army chaplain, the city was incorporated in 1951 with a population of 2,000. Named Scottsdale in 1894 after its founder Winfield Scott, a retired U.S. Scottsdale is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and is part of the Phoenix metropolitan area.
