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Guinness World Records calls Yuma this type of city, promising 91% sunshine year-round.
What is the sunniest city on Earth?
This infamous, now-historic park was a functioning prison from 1876 to 1909.
What is the Yuma Territorial Prison?
Between November and March, Yuma provides 90% of this leafy green in the United States.
What is Lettuce?
This major river flows through Yuma and provides water for the entire region.
What is the Colorado River?
This branch of the U.S. Armed Forces operates a major air station in Yuma.
What is the Marine Corps (MCAS YUMA)
Yuma is located within this major desert of the Southwest.
What is the Sonoran Desert.
Yuma is known as the ”Gateway to” this state, located just across the Colorado River.
What is California?
This large river provides the irrigation that allows agriculture to thrive in the Yuma desert.
What is the Colorado River?
Yuma is located in the southwestern corner of Arizona, near the border of this country.
What is Mexico?
The Marine Corps Air Station Yuma shares its long runway with this type of civilian facility?
What is the Yuma International Airport?
In 1995, Yuma hit its hottest temperature ever recorded, which was this many degrees Fahrenheit.
What is 124 degrees Fahrenheit?
In 1873, this city changed its name to Yuma, which is what the Spanish called local Native Americans based on the word for “smoke”.
What was Arizona City.
Farmers in Yuma grow over this many different types of crops.
What is 175?
These famous dunes, popular for off-roaring, are located near Yuma and are called the “Buttercup” dunes.
What are the Imperial Sand Dunes?
This “Proving Ground” in Yuma is the largest military installation in the world by area.
What is Yuma Proving Ground (YPG)
Due to its arid climate, Yuma usually gets less than this many inches of rain per year.
What is 4inches?
This famous 1877 railroad bridge was the first to cross the Colorado River at Yuma.
What is the Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge?
Almost all of these sweet, brown, palm-tree fruits grown in Arizona come from Yuma County.
What are Medjool Dates?
This 1915 vehicle bridge, now a tourist spot, was the first to cross the Colorado River.
What is the Ocean-to-Ocean Bride?
In 1911, Calbraith Perry Rodger’s made the first airplane flight in Arizona, landing in this local venue.
What is the Yuma County Fairgrounds?
Because of dry weather, this “S” word is rare, though a light layer covered the city on December 12th, 1932.
What is Snow?
Louis F. Jaeger operated a ferry here for $25 a head during this 1850’s event.
What is the California Gold Rush?
Besides leafy greens, Yuma is a top producer of this bright yellow citrus fruit, specifically in 20p7.
What are Lemons?
The “Official Center of the World“ is located at a spot with this name, a short drive from Yuma.
What is Felicity?
In 1949, a plane stayed aloft for 48 days straight to set a record in this “City of Yuma aircraft.
What is an Aeronca Sedan?