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Washington Park, Arizona

census-designated place in Arizona, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ6166502 ↗
Source-derived summary

Washington Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in Gila County, Arizona, United States. The population was 85 in the 2020 census, and 70 at the 2010 United States census.

Geography

Tonto Village is located in northern Gila County in the valley of the upper reaches of the East Verde River, just below (south of) the Mogollon Rim. It is 17 miles (27 km) north of Payson via Houston Mesa Road and Belluzzi Boulevard. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.6 square miles (6.8 km2), all land.

Demographics

Education

It is in the Payson Unified School District. Payson High School is the zoned comprehensive high school.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Washington Park, Arizona” as census-designated place in Arizona, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Washington, Park and Arizona can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as census-designated place in Arizona, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6166502. Authority coordinates are 34.400, -111.271. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Washington Park, Arizona” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.