“Carefree, Arizona”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Characterised as an upscale^[4] residential area, Carefree was conceived in the mid-1950s by business partners K.T. Palmer and Tom Darlington as a master-planned community. Land sales commenced in 1955 and homebuilding started in 1958. Carefree was incorporated in 1984 to avoid annexation by neighboring Scottsdale.^[5]

Features

The Carefree sundial, designed by architect Joe Wong and solar engineer John I. Yellott,^[6] was erected in the Sundial Circle plaza in 1959 and claims to be the "third largest sundial in the Western Hemisphere". The sundial, which points to the North Star, is made from a steel frame and covered in anodized copper. It measures {{convert|90|ft|m}} in diameter. The metal gnomon, the shadow-casting portion of the dial, stands {{convert|35|ft|m}} above the plaza and extends {{convert|72|ft|m}}.^[7]

Carefree was the long-time home of Southwestern Studios, originally built in 1968 as Fred Graham Studios by actor, stunt man, and Arizona Film Commissioner Fred Graham. The sprawling {{convert|160|acre|km2|adj=on}} desert property adjacent to North Scottsdale featured three state-of-the-art soundstages, edit bays, 35mm screening room, make-up, production facilities, western street and back lot. In the early 1970s, Stage 1 of the studio was used for The New Dick Van Dyke Show starring Dick Van Dyke, Hope Lange, Fannie Flagg, and Marty Brill. Stage 1 also was used for the filming of one of Orson Welles' last films, The Other Side of the Wind, with John Huston, Oja Kodar, Susan Strasberg, Bob Random and Peter Bogdanovich.^[8]

The studio was used for the filming of Bob Hope's last feature film, Cancel My Reservation,^[9] with Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Bellamy, and Forrest Tucker. Scenes were also shot at the studio for Michaelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, such as the back-lot house explosion, for Paul Newman's scenes in Pocket Money, for Bill Cosby's feature debut, Man and Boy, specifically the western street, and recently for Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, again the western street. The short, silent feature Time River^[10] was shot on Stages 2 and 3 and extensively on the back lot and western street sets.

Later known as Carefree Studios, it was razed in 1999. The Scottsdale Road studio back lot and pristine desert property was developed into retail space and residential development.

Carefree is {{convert|17|mi|km}} west of Bartlett Lake, in the Tonto National Forest.

Gordon Lightfoot wrote and sang a beautiful song named Carefree Highway. He took the name from a section of Arizona State Route 74 in north Phoenix, to explain his mood at that time.

Geography and climate

Carefree is bordered by the city of Scottsdale to the south and the town of Cave Creek to the west. Carefree and Cave Creek are often thought of as a single community.^[11] The two towns share the local landmark Black Mountain.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of {{convert|8.9|sqmi|km2}}, all of it land.

Carefree has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh) with hot summers and mild winters, avoiding arid designation by being located closer to the rain-catching central mountains of Arizona, so that it receives about 70 percent (around {{convert|5.3|in|mm|0|disp=or}}) more rainfall annually than does Phoenix. There are 141 afternoons annually with highs of at least {{convert|90|°F|1|disp=or}}, 63.4 afternoons of at least {{convert|100|°F|1|disp=or}}, and three afternoons that exceed {{convert|110|F|C|1|disp=or}}. During the winter, 8.3 mornings will fall below freezing; the coldest temperature reported in Carefree is {{convert|15|F|C|1|disp=or}}, which occurred on January 13, 1963 and January 7, 1971. Snowfall is extremely rare with only four occurrences since 1962 and no measurable snow since April 2, 1999 when the settlement saw its latest freeze on record; the most snow on record is {{convert|2.3|in|m|2|disp=or}} during March 1973. Rainfall, however, is sometimes heavy during winter fronts or monsoonal storms; the wettest month on record is January 1993 with {{convert|9.37|in|mm|1}}, which helped produce a record “rain year” total of {{convert|26.20|in|mm|1}} between July 1992 and June 1993; in contrast between July 1962 and June 1963 only {{convert|6.98|in|mm|1}} was recorded.

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|location = Carefree, Arizona (1971–2000; extremes since November 1961)
|single line = Y
|Jan record high F = 84
|Feb record high F = 86
|Mar record high F = 97
|Apr record high F = 101
|May record high F = 108
|Jun record high F = 117
|Jul record high F = 118
|Aug record high F = 113
|Sep record high F = 108
|Oct record high F = 101
|Nov record high F = 92
|Dec record high F = 80
|year record high F = 118
|Jan high F = 62.0
|Feb high F = 65.5
|Mar high F = 69.7
|Apr high F = 78.7
|May high F = 87.8
|Jun high F = 97.9
|Jul high F = 101.1
|Aug high F = 99.4
|Sep high F = 94.0
|Oct high F = 83.2
|Nov high F = 70.0
|Dec high F = 62.3
|year high F = 82.4
|Jan low F = 41.1
|Feb low F = 43.6
|Mar low F = 46.7
|Apr low F = 52.3
|May low F = 60.3
|Jun low F = 69.8
|Jul low F = 75.6
|Aug low F = 74.6
|Sep low F = 69.7
|Oct low F = 59.6
|Nov low F = 47.7
|Dec low F = 41.4
|year low F = 56.9
|Jan record low F = 15
|Feb record low F = 20
|Mar record low F = 24
|Apr record low F = 32
|May record low F = 37
|Jun record low F = 43
|Jul record low F = 56
|Aug record low F = 60
|Sep record low F = 44
|Oct record low F = 32
|Nov record low F = 28
|Dec record low F = 20
|year record low F = 15
|rain colour = green
|Jan rain inch = 1.70
|Feb rain inch = 1.56
|Mar rain inch = 2.01
|Apr rain inch = 0.51
|May rain inch = 0.16
|Jun rain inch = 0.14
|Jul rain inch = 1.16
|Aug rain inch = 1.50
|Sep rain inch = 0.90
|Oct rain inch = 1.29
|Nov rain inch = 1.00
|Dec rain inch = 1.35
|unit rain days = 0.01 in
|Jan rain days = 5.4
|Feb rain days = 4.5
|Mar rain days = 5.8
|Apr rain days = 2.5
|May rain days = 1.2
|Jun rain days = 0.7
|Jul rain days = 4.0
|Aug rain days = 4.8
|Sep rain days = 3.8
|Oct rain days = 3.8
|Nov rain days = 3.0
|Dec rain days = 3.7
|source 1 = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration^[12]
|source 2 = National Weather Service, Phoenix (records)^[13]
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Sears-Kay Ruin

The prehistoric Hohokam’s built villages and defensive fortifications. The Sears-Kay Ruin is one of the many forts built by the Hohokam. The ruins of this fort is located atop a desert foothill in the Tonto National Forest on the outskirts of the town of Carefree, Az. The fort was built around 1050 AD and later abandoned only to be discovered in 1867 by soldiers on patrol who were stationed in nearby Fort McDowell. The fort had 40 rooms which housed about 100 people. The area was named after two early homesteaders. The site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in November 24, 1995, reference #95001310.^[14]

Education

Demographics

As of the census^[17] of 2000, there were 2,927 people, 1,389 households, and 995 families residing in the town. The population density was 330.8 people per square mile (127.7/km²). There were 1,769 housing units at an average density of 200.0 per square mile (77.2/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.4% White, 0.2% Black or African American, <1% Native American, <1% Asian, <1% from other races, and 0.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.7% of the population.

There were 1,389 households out of which 14.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.5% were married couples living together, 3.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.3% were non-families. 23.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.11 and the average family size was 2.44.

In the town, the population was spread out with 12.7% under the age of 18, 2.0% from 18 to 24, 15.4% from 25 to 44, 40.5% from 45 to 64, and 29.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 55 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.2 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $88,702, and the median income for a family was $105,699. Males had a median income of $61,050 versus $38,750 for females. The per capita income for the town was $62,433. About 2.0% of families and 3.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.2% of those under the age of 18 and 3.2% of those 65 and older.

Notable residents

References

1. ^{{Cite GNIS|2413168|Feature Detail Report for: Kool Corner}}
2. ^¹{{cite web |title=American FactFinder |url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml |publisher=United States Census Bureau |accessdate=August 28, 2014}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2016_Gazetteer/2016_gaz_place_04.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=July 18, 2017}}
4. ^Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine, Nov/Dec 2006
5. ^Carefree born out of a desire to live in harmony with desert
6. ^bigwatse.com see Solar Today, Jan./Feb. 1987 p. 4, for Yellott's biography.
7. ^N. America Sundials Society {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218054250/http://sundials.org/registry/dials_al_la.htm#ARIZONA |date=December 18, 2007 }}
8. ^Brechner, K.C. (1986) Welles' Farewell, The Other Side of the Wind, American Cinematographer, 67 (7), 34–38.
9. ^Cancel My Reservation (1972) Notes, TCM website
10. ^[https://vimeo.com/114515884 Time River], Vimeo website
11. ^Carefree-Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce
12. ^Climatography of the United States No. 20: 1971–2000; [https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climatenormals/clim20/az/021282.pdf Carefree, AZ]
13. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=psr |title=NowData – NOAA Online Weather Data |publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |accessdate=January 10, 2013}}
14. ^Carefree-Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce
15. ^¹{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/tables.2016.html|title=Population and Housing Unit Estimates|accessdate=June 9, 2017}}
16. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2016}}
17. ^{{cite web|url=http://factfinder2.census.gov |publisher=United States Census Bureau |accessdate=January 31, 2008 |title=American FactFinder |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911234518/http://factfinder2.census.gov/ |archivedate=September 11, 2013 |df= }}
18. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0%2C%2C20065007%2C00.html |publisher=People Magazine |title=Hugh Downs Is An Uneasy Rider in Retirement |date=March 3, 1975 |last=Bernard |first=Bina |accessdate=September 23, 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130610070855/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0%2C%2C20065007%2C00.html |archivedate=June 10, 2013 |deadurl=yes |df= }}

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