Paradise Valley is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and a suburb of Phoenix, the state’s largest city. It is Arizona’s wealthiest municipality. The town is known for its luxury golf courses, shopping, expensive real estate, and restaurant scene. According to the 2020 census, its population was 12,658. Despite its relatively small area and population compared to further municipalities in the Phoenix metropolitan area, Paradise Valley is house to eight full-service resorts, making it one of Arizona’s premier tourist destinations.

The town’s publish comes from the expansive area known as Paradise Valley that spreads from north of the Phoenix Mountains to Cave Creek and Carefree on the north and the McDowell Mountains to the east. Resident children attend schools in the Scottsdale Unified School District.

The town’s records dates to a more agrarian society. After the initial European settlement, Paradise Valley was first used for cattle grazing. In the 1880s, when the house was swine surveyed fittingly it could be developed into agricultural lots, the name “Paradise Valley” first came into use, given by surveyors from the Rio Verde Canal Company and its official at the time, Frank Conkey. The post may have been selected due to the abundance of spring wildflowers and palo verde trees. Mainly an agricultural Place during the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s, the Place began to be arranged after World War II, on large, one-to-five-acre (4,000 to 20,200 m) lots for which it became known.

As the adjacent to settlements of Phoenix and Scottsdale began to mount up and annex neighboring areas, the residents of what became Paradise Valley were concerned that the qualities they most valued would be drifting if they were consumed by their larger neighbors. These residents formed the “Citizens Committee for the Incorporation of The Town of Paradise Valley, Arizona”, which collected tolerable signatures to accept to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. The supervisors fixed the petition, allowing the town of Paradise Valley to be incorporated upon May 24, 1961.