Scottsdale is a city in the eastern ration of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and is share of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Named Scottsdale in 1894 after its founder Winfield Scott, a retired U.S. Army chaplain, the city was incorporated in 1951 in the ventilate of a population of 2,000. As of the 2020 census, the population was 241,361, up from 217,385 in 2010. Its slogan is “The West’s Most Western Town”. It has been one of the fastest growing cities in the United States higher than the next decades.

Scottsdale, 31 miles (50 km) long and 11.4 miles (18.3 km) wide at its widest point, shares boundaries past many new municipalities and entities. On the west, Scottsdale is bordered by Phoenix, Paradise Valley and unincorporated Maricopa County land. Carefree is along the western boundary, and shares Scottsdale’s northern boundary considering the Tonto National Forest. To the south Scottsdale is bordered by Tempe. The southern boundary is then occupied by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, which extends along the eastern boundary, which plus borders Fountain Hills, the McDowell Mountain Regional Park and more unincorporated Maricopa County land.

The area that includes what became Scottsdale was first inhabited by the Hohokam people, from nearly 300 BC to 1450 AD. This ancient civilization farmed the Place and developed a puzzling network of irrigation canals that was unsurpassed in pre-Columbian North America. At its peak, the canals stretched exceeding 250 mi (400 km)s. Many remain today, some having been renovated and put into use in the 20th century. Under still-unknown circumstances, the Hohokam left the area about 1450 or 1500, most likely because of a prolonged drought. The adjacent inhabitants, the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and the Tohono O’odham (Papago), are thought to be the Hohokam’s refer descendants.

Scottsdale was originally a Pima village known as Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ, meaning “rotting hay.” Despite its becoming a ahead of its time city, some Pima remain there today. Until the late 1960s, there was a still-occupied conventional dwelling upon the southeast corner of Indian Bend Road and Hayden Road. The Pima who conscious in Scottsdale today reside in liberal houses, not traditional dwellings. Many Pima and Maricopa people rouse in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, which borders Scottsdale to the south and east.