Facts About Peoria
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Peoria is a city in Maricopa and Yavapai counties in the state of Arizona.
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Peoria was named the “Rose Capital of the World” in 1956.
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According to 2019 Census Bureau estimates, the estimated population of the city is 175,961.
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Peoria is currently the sixth-largest city in Arizona in land area and the ninth-largest in population.
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Peoria was named after Peoria, Illinois. The word Peoria is a corruption of the Miami-Illinois word for ‘prairie fire’.
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 141.7 square miles, of which 138.2 square miles is land and 3.5 square miles is water.
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Peoria is twinned with one sister city Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland.
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Peoria was founded in 1886, by four families from Illinois who moved to Arizona in 1886 and named the new settlement after their home town.
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Peoria was incorporated as a city in 1954 and became a Charter City in 1983.
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Peoria is home to Lake Pleasant, the second largest lake in Arizona after Roosevelt Lake. Though Lake Mead is much larger, it is shared by both Arizona and Nevada.
