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Surprise, Arizona. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Maricopa. Associated ZIP codes: 85374, 85378, 85379, 85387, 85388.
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Stetson Bennett IV will get the start in the L.A. Rams preseason opener on Saturday, but the news wasn't as good for Carson Beck, who is a surprise scratch f...
Arizona football coach Brent Brennan spent his first two seasons with the Wildcats trying to establish his culture, which he summarizes in one word: redline.
With grocery prices still straining family budgets across Arizona, a routine trip to the store can feel like a weekly stress test.
Federal officials delay converting a Surprise, Arizona, warehouse to a detention facility for illegal migrants, pending an environmental assessment.
Does your school board record its meetings? In Arizona, the answer may surprise you.
Gabriel Mendoza-Acoltzi, 19, of Avondale, is accused of federal charges after allegedly using a propane tank and a torch to set fire to an ICE property in Su...
For the last two decades, John has designed, built and maintained a train garden which spans 3,000 square feet.
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Bernadette Greene-Placentia said the incident occurred around 2 a.m. in a parking lot in Sun City, Arizona.
Ruth Margaret Jones, a longtime Helena resident, passed away peacefully on November 8, 2025, in Sun City, Arizona, at the age of 96.
Ruth Margaret Jones, a longtime Helena resident, passed away peacefully on November 8, 2025, in Sun City, Arizona, at the age of 96.
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Fillmore is home to a new restaurant, “The Treehouse at Pistol Rock,” and it’s in the most unlikely of places. It’s at the golf course. Tod Monsen, w...
A volunteer crew of north state linemen, including those from Chico and Red Bluff, spent two weeks in September bringing electricity to the homes of 12 famil...
Trent Perry scores 21 points for the Bruins, who overcome a career-best 38 points from the Wildcats’ Ivan Kharchenkov for an 84-75 upset win. Jaylen Petty...
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Surprise is in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Region: Arizona
85374, 85378, 85379, 85387, 85388
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Fillmore is home to a new restaurant, “The Treehouse at Pistol Rock,” and it’s in the most unlikely of places. It’s at the golf course. Tod Monsen, w...
A volunteer crew of north state linemen, including those from Chico and Red Bluff, spent two weeks in September bringing electricity to the homes of 12 famil...
Trent Perry scores 21 points for the Bruins, who overcome a career-best 38 points from the Wildcats’ Ivan Kharchenkov for an 84-75 upset win. Jaylen Petty...
Surprise was founded in 1938 by Flora Mae Statler, daughter of the Arizona pioneer Charles Gillett, who had helped found Glendale as a temperance community and owned much land there and in the Verde Valley. City officials long believed the founder was Statler's husband, the real estate developer and state legislator Homer C. Ludden, but property records found in 2010 show that Statler owned the land before she met him.
Accounts of the name differ. Modern records often say Statler named the land Surprise because she "would be surprised if the town ever amounted to much," and her daughter supported that story. Others point out that pioneers often named settlements after their hometowns, and Ludden came from Surprise, Nebraska. The square-mile townsite, bounded by Greenway, El Mirage, Bell and Dysart roads, was subdivided to build inexpensive houses for farmworkers, and at first held only a few houses and a gas station. Surprise was incorporated as a city in 1960 and has grown tremendously since. City Hall stands on the site of Luke Air Force Base's former Auxiliary Airfield No. 3, whose runway outlines can still be seen from the air. Sources Wikipedia: Surprise, Arizona
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