Coolidge was laid out in 1925 and grew into the hub of Arizona’s cotton country. The Coolidge Woman’s Club, East Park, Main Street Park, Coolidge Junior High, Imagine Prep Coolidge and the Coolidge Alternative Program & Virtual Academy are printed here. So are Borree Corner and Eleven Mile Corner, Bogart Wash, the Casa Grande Canal and the Central Arizona Project Canal.
Coolidge is in Pinal County, about 56 miles southeast of Phoenix.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief of the landscape comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. The city covers 83.653 square miles of a fertile valley just south of the Gila River, and it’s almost entirely flat, with the Sacaton Mountains in view to the west and the Picacho Mountains to the southeast. The Coolidge Woman’s Club is on the National Register of Historic Places, and we checked it against National Park Service records. Coolidge had 13,218 people at the 2020 census.
The Great House
Long before the town, the Hohokam, an ancient Sonoran Desert people, lived here for more than 1,000 years and built a large compound of caliche buildings. Its surviving structure is preserved as Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, in Coolidge. The O’odham name is Sivan Vahki, and the Spanish name means “big house,” for the largest building, what remains of a four-story structure built with traditional adobe methods. The people who built it farmed the Gila Valley, dug wide-scale irrigation and kept up trade connections until about 1450. Father Eusebio Kino was the first European to see it, in November 1694, and he gave it the name Casa Grande.
In 1892, President Benjamin Harrison set aside 480 acres around the ruins, and the monument’s page calls it the first prehistoric and cultural reserve in the United States. The town page puts it as the first historic site to receive protected status from the federal government. In 1932 the Boston architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. built the shelter that still covers the Great House, and between 1937 and 1940 the Civilian Conservation Corps built adobe offices and housing for the monument that are still in use.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: E Blackwater School Rd, Dove Rd, E Mayfield, London Rd, W Bechtel Rd, W Val Vista Rd, W Woodruff Rd, Woodruff Ln, Tyree Rd, Church Rd, Reynolds Rd, E Robin Rd.
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Arizona Western Blvd, Bartlett Rd, Canal Rd, Citrus Loop, Coahuila St, Coolidge Ave, Cornman Rd, E Adamsville Rd, E Arica Rd, Earley Rd, Early Rd, E Bahama Rd, E Canal Rd, E Carmichael St, E Casa Bonita Rd, E Central Ave, E Cottonwood Ln, E Earley Rd, E Early Rd, E Freefall Ave, E Garcia Rd, E Grace Dr, E Grogan Ave, E Hanna Rd, E Hauser Rd, E Houser Rd, E Kenilworth Rd, E Kleck Rd, E Laughlin Rd, El Dorado, Eleven Mile Corner Rd, E Marlin Dr, E Miller Blvd, E Palmer Rd, E Randolph Rd, E Saddleback Rd, E Shedd Rd, E Silverhawk Ave, E Steele Rd, E Stone Rd, E Storey Rd, E Vah Ki Inn Rd, E Windsor Rd, Forest Rd, Hiscox Ln, Lonesome Ln, Martin Rd, Mayfield Rd, N Christensen Rd, N Clemans Rd, N Coolidge Airport Rd, N Edgedale Rd, N England Rd, N Hidalgo Dr, N Kirby St, No Overfield Dr, N Park, N Robson, N Start Rd, Oro Dr, Rainbow Ct, Rio Dr, S Arizona Blvd, S Burton Ave, Sellers St, S Kayley Ct, S La Palma Rd, S Picacho Hwy, Sunshine Rd, S Wheeler Rd, Vail Rd, W Acoma St, W Adams Rd, W Arica Rd, W Aztec Rd, W Bartlett Rd, W Casa Bonita Rd, W Cherry, W Chiricahua St, W Cornman Rd, W Earley Rd, W Hanna Rd, Wheeler Rd, W Houser Rd, W Inca Dr, W Kleck Rd, W Lakeland Dr, W Lake Powell Dr, W Pima, W Portola Dr, W Posada St, W Randolph Rd, W Shedd Rd, W Storey Rd, W Tonto Rd.
A dam and a cotton town
R.J. Jones laid out an 80-acre townsite in 1925, while Coolidge Dam was being built on the Gila River. Both the dam and the town were named for President Calvin Coolidge, who dedicated the dam in 1930. Water from the dam turned the sandy soil into rich farmland, desert was plowed for cotton, and the area became the hub of Arizona’s cotton industry, which led to the town’s incorporation as a city in 1945. Until the 1950s the economy depended entirely on mining and cotton. It has since grown to include manufacturing, regional trade and services for farm families.
The Coolidge Woman’s Club, at 240 West Pinkley Avenue, was built of adobe in 1928 to a design by the Phoenix architect C. Lewis Kelley. It went on the National Register in 1990, and its page says it was the first building in Coolidge built for public activities, and that it “housed many civic groups and soon became the social center of the community.” Today Coolidge is home to Central Arizona College and the Central Arizona Valley Institute of Technology. Coolidge Junior High teaches grades six through eight, and Imagine Prep Coolidge is a charter school for grades six through twelve.
The Central Arizona Project Canal carries Colorado River water 336 miles from Lake Havasu, near Parker, into central and southern Arizona, a project Senator Carl Hayden guided through Congress. In 2019 Nikola Motor Company bought 389 acres in Coolidge for a factory that builds zero-emission heavy trucks.
This Coolidge 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 Coolidge home, from Borree Corner out to Eleven Mile Corner, 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 Coolidge map.
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