The gymnasium of Casa Grande’s old high school was built in 1936 of adobe made from the earth on the site, and its page calls it Arizona’s only adobe gymnasium. The Casa Grande Union High School and Gymnasium is printed on this map of the city, along with the Casa Grande Woman’s Club Building, the Paramount Theatre, Historic Downtown Casa Grande, Casa Grande Middle School and Villago Park, from Bon out to Mission Royale, with Burgess Peak, the North Branch Santa Cruz Wash and the Casa Grande Canal shaping the land.
Casa Grande is in Pinal County, about halfway between Phoenix and Tucson.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief of Burgess Peak comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. The Casa Grande Union High School and Gymnasium, the Casa Grande Woman’s Club Building and the Paramount Theatre are on the National Register of Historic Places, and we checked them against National Park Service records. Casa Grande had 53,658 people at the 2020 census.
Terminus
Casa Grande was founded in 1879, during the Arizona mining boom, because the Southern Pacific Railroad was there. In January 1880 a settlement called Terminus, meaning “end of the line,” started out with five residents and three buildings. That September railroad executives renamed it Casa Grande, Spanish for “big house,” after the Hohokam ruins of the same name. Those ruins are actually in Coolidge, to the northeast, at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, where the Big House has stood for about seven centuries. When the mining boom slowed in the 1890s the town was nearly abandoned, but farming kept it alive, and it was incorporated in 1915. One of its founding fathers, Thompson Rodney Peart, gave his name to Peart Road, Peart Park and the Peart Center. The town page adds that English speakers who live here have never agreed on how to say the city’s name.
Stone, adobe and a theater
The original Casa Grande Union High School was built in 1920 and 1921 for $135,000, with an indoor swimming pool and an auditorium, a big step for a growing town. The adobe gymnasium followed in 1936, built for $12,000, much of it from the Depression-era Works Progress Administration, and making its adobe gave people in hard-hit Casa Grande much-needed jobs. The building served as the high school until 1997, when a new school opened elsewhere, and today it’s the Casa Grande City Hall.
The Casa Grande Woman’s Club started in 1913 as the Current Events Club, and that same year it founded the town’s first library, which it ran until 1953. In 1921 the women set up a free school lunch program, and in the 1960s they organized the Casa Grande Valley Historical Society. Their clubhouse on North Sacaton Street, designed by the Tucson architect Henry Jaastad, was built in 1924 in the Pueblo Revival style by the local stonemason Michael Sullivan, faced with desert stones the members donated. In 1997 the club sold it to the city for $1.00, and its restoration, finished in 2001, won the Arizona Main Street award for best historic rehabilitation. Sullivan built several other fieldstone buildings in town in the 1920s, among them the Casa Grande Stone Church of 1927. The Paramount Theatre, at 420 North Florence Street, was built in 1929 and joined the National Register in 1999.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: Kiva Rd, Arrowhead Rd, Four Winds Rd, W Trading Post Rd, Bellvue Ave, W Miller Rd, Cowtown Rd, Warrior Rd, Corrals Rd, Millrise Rd, W Camdon Dr, Ghost Ranch Rd.
More street names, A to Z
Ash Ave, Berro Rd, Boone Dr, Cam del Sol, Candle St, Candlestick Dr, Carmel Blvd, Casa Grand-Picacho Hwy, Casa Grande, Casa Grande-Picacho Hwy, Casa Grande la Palma Hwy, Clayton Rd, Coolidge Ave, Crawford Rd, Dale Rd, Dusty Ln, Earley Rd, Early Rd, E Casa Bonita Rd, E Earley Rd, E Grogan Ave, E Hattfield Rd, E Jimmie Kerr Blvd, E Kortsen, E Kortsen Rd, E McCartney Rd, E Mopar Dr, E Palm St, E Stephens Rd, E Whispering, Gila Bend Hwy, Hacienda Rd, Hahn St, Hanna Rd, Henness Rd, Illinois Rd, Jimmie Kerr Blvd, La Brea St, Lawrence St, Luna Dr, Madera Dr, Mammoth Dr, Manchester Rd, Minneapolis Rd, Montgomery Rd, Musial Rd, N Burris Rd, N Ethington Rd, N Gadsden Dr, N Hacienda Rd, N Manchester Rd, N Signal Peak Rd, Pale Ln, Palmas Dr, Paraiso Dr, Peart Rd, Rainy Rd, Rio Dr, Rodeo Rd, S Barstow Ave, S Colt, S Colt Dr, S Cox Rd, S Dusty Ln, Sisler Rd, S Isom Rd, Sommerfield Rd, S Persico Rd, Spike Rd, S Wagner Rd, Talc Rd, Tamarack Way, Tee Ln, Terkell Rd, Thornton Rd, Vista Rd, W Acoma Ave, W Altadena Dr, W Aniceto Rd, W Arica Rd, W Ash Ave, W Avalon St, W Aztec Rd, W Barnes Rd, W Beggs Rd, W Casa Mia Rd, W Chiricahua St, W Cornman Rd, W Cox Cir, W Earley Rd, Weaver Rd, W George Dr, W Golden Hills Dr, W Hanna Rd, W Hanna St, W Hardin Rd, W Houser Rd, W Hualapai, W Joaquin Rd, W Kleck Rd, W Kortsen Rd, W Malone, W Marea Dr, W Maricopa Hwy, W Marsh Rd, W Natalie Ln, Woodruff Ln, W Peters Rd, W Provo Rd, W Randolph Rd, W Selma Hwy, W Skyway Ave, W Storey Rd, W Tierra Bonita, W Tohono Dr, W Tonto Rd, W Val Vista Blvd, W Verbena Rd, Yola Dr.
A baseball town
In 1959 Horace Stoneham, owner of the San Francisco Giants, began developing the Francisco Grande Hotel and Golf Resort as a spring training camp, its name taken from San “Francisco” and Casa “Grande.” The first exhibition game was played here in 1961, and Willie Mays hit a 375-foot home run. The Giants no longer train there, but a pool shaped like a baseball bat and ball still remembers them. The Casa Grande Cotton Kings, founded in 1948, won Arizona state championships to reach the National Baseball Congress World Series ten years in a row in the 1940s and 1950s. During World War II, Japanese Americans were held at the Gila River War Relocation Center outside Casa Grande, and the baseball player Kenichi Zenimura built a ball field there and set up a league in the camp.
Around Casa Grande
Historic Downtown Casa Grande, Casa Grande Middle School and Villago Park are printed on the map, along with Bon and Mission Royale, Burgess Peak, the North Branch Santa Cruz Wash and the Casa Grande Canal. Cotton and dairy farms built the local economy, and in November 2020 the Lucid Motors electric car plant opened in the city. The concrete targets of the Casa Grande Photogrammetric Test Range, a grid of 272 markers laid out in and around the city, were used to calibrate aerial survey cameras until 1972, and at least 143 were still in place as of 2013.
This Casa Grande map is a good addition to an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of the area. It’s made for anyone who calls Casa Grande home, from Bon to Mission Royale, and KNOWOL created it in 2026 to show the city as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Casa Grande map.
Sources
- Casa Grande, Arizona, Wikipedia
- Casa Grande Union High School, Wikipedia
- Casa Grande Woman’s Club Building, Wikipedia
- List of historic properties in Casa Grande, Arizona, Wikipedia
- Francisco Grande, Wikipedia
- Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Wikipedia
- Casa Grande Photogrammetric Test Range, Wikipedia
