Avra Valley, Arizona

• Running washes and more storms
  

  This morning a line of showers and thunderstorms stretching from Casa Grande south through Avra Valley to the Boboquivari Mountains and the international border remained stationary.

• Ora Mae Harn, 1933-2010
  

  Ora Harn in 2004/Tucson Citizen file photo. If only we were all like Ora Mae Harn.

City Description

The Avra Valley is a 50 mile (80 km) long northwest-southeast valley, bordering the west of Tucson, Arizona. The Tucson Mountains are at the valley's center-east, with suburbs ranging east of the Tucson Mountains and trending northwest to the Avra Valley's northeast. This entire northwest stretch from Tucson contains the northwest trending Interstate 10, the route to Casa Grande and Phoenix. The northeast of the valley contains Marana on I-10, the Pinal Airpark, an aircraft storage park, and other communities along I-10. The center-(west) of the valley is at Cocoraque Butte, 32°13′16″N 111°20′31″W / 32.22119°N 111.34205°W / 32.22119; -111.34205 (Baldy Peak (Sierrieta Mountains)), extended northeast from the Roskruge Mountains. Cocoraque Butte's height is 2,758 feet (841 m). Avra Valley is a narrow valley, only about 10 mi wide in some locations, and bordered completely on the west by low elevation, arid mountain ranges. From the northwest, the mountains are the West Silver Bell's, Silver Bell Mountains, Waterman's, and then in the southwest the Roskruge Mountains. South of the Roskruge, Arizona Route 86 enters the valley from the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona to the west.

City Contained By:

• Pima County
• Arizona
• United States of America

Timezones:

• Mountain Time Zone

Size:

• 57.2387372384 km squared

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