Litchfield Park still carries the name of the Goodyear man who came west looking for cotton in 1916. This map runs from LaLoma Ranch out to Sunset Terrace and prints The Church at Litchfield Park, Litchfield Elementary School, the Litchfield Park Recreation Center, Camelback Park and Scout Park, with the Airline Canal giving shape to the land.
Litchfield Park is a city in Maricopa County, 19 miles west 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 borders Avondale to the southeast, Goodyear to the west and Glendale to the north, and 6,847 people lived here at the 2020 census.
Cotton for tires
Paul Weeks Litchfield was an executive of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and he needed long-staple cotton to strengthen the rubber in pneumatic tires. That cotton had come only from the Sea Islands off Georgia and from Egypt, and the boll weevil and World War I had cut both supplies. The U.S. Department of Agriculture suggested the Phoenix area, and when local farmers wouldn’t grow his cotton, Litchfield had Goodyear form the Southwest Cotton Company, with himself as president. It bought some 36,000 acres in the Salt River Valley, among them 5,000 acres around what was then Litchfield Ranch, much of it for as little as $25 an acre. Two thousand workers, mostly Mexican migrants and Native Americans, turned the desert into cotton fields.
Litchfield looked after the community he’d started. In 1917 he set aside a cemetery for the workers of Goodyear Farms and the Wigwam, and in 1918 Goodyear built the Wigwam Organizational House to lodge ranch suppliers, the first building of what became the Wigwam Resort, which opened to the public in 1929. In 1919 he had the St. Thomas Aquinas Mission Church built, mainly for the Mexican farm workers, and the same year he oversaw the building of the Litchfield Elementary Schools. The Postal Service accepted the name Litchfield Park in 1926. The Church at Litchfield Park has a story of its own: on a visit to a casino in Ensenada, Mexico, Litchfield was so taken with the interior that he made a detailed drawing of it, and he used it as the model for the church’s sanctuary, which a Goodyear crew built in 1938.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: W Warhawk St, Valley View Dr, Bethany Home Rd, W Bloomington St, W Blossom Way, Reade Ave, W Camelback Rd, E Campina Dr, W Denton St, S Denny Blvd, 34th Ln, W San Juan Ave.
More street names, A to Z
129th Ave, Acacia Cir, Aldea Pl, Amelia Ave, Avalon Dr, Cascada Rd, Clarendon Ave, Columbus Ave, Desert Ave, Earll Dr, E Bird Ln, E Cercado Ln, E Estero Ln, E Fairway Dr, E Palm St, E Robson Cir, E Wigwam Blvd, Fairway Dr, Florence Ave, Goodyear Rd, Highland Ave, Indianola Ave, Jasmine Way, Lajolla Dr, Las Cruces Dr, Litchfield Rd, Luna Cir, Luna Pl, N Bullard Ave, N Village Pkwy, Oro Vis, Osborn Rd, Pierson St, Plaza Cir, Redondo Dr, Redondo Dr W, Sagebrush St, Sells Dr, S Old Litchfield Rd, Sonoma Dr, Village Pkwy, Villa Nueva Dr, W Colter St, W Desert Ave, Weldon Ave, Wigwam Blvd, W Indian School Rd, W Plaza Cir, W Wigwam Blvd.
Rancho La Loma and the town that grew
Litchfield rose to lead Goodyear, as president, chairman and the company’s first CEO. Under him it built the airships USS Akron and USS Macon, and its research department turned out the first practical airplane tire and a bullet-sealing fuel tank for military planes. He was also the father of the Boy Scouts’ Air Scout program. After he retired he lived at Rancho La Loma, his ranch on a hill along Litchfield Road; in 1958 he and his wife moved to a new house on Fairway Drive, near a golf course, and he died there in 1959. His daughter Edith and her husband, Wally Denny, lived at Rancho La Loma until their deaths in 2001 and 2008, and their estate offered the La Loma homestead to the city as a gift. LaLoma Ranch is printed on this map. The Arizona road named Litchfield Road honors him, too.
In 1964 Goodyear set out to grow Litchfield Park into a community of 90,000 people, with the architect Victor Gruen hired to design some of the buildings, but the company abandoned the plan before it was finished and sold the land it could. Litchfield Park incorporated as a city in 1987, and its first mayor was Charles Salem. Jacque Mercer, a former Miss America, is among the city’s notable people. The P.W. Litchfield Heritage Center and the Recreation Center have their places on the sheet, along with Camelback Park, Scout Park and Sunset Terrace.
This Litchfield Park 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 Litchfield Park home, 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 Litchfield Park map.
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