Editing Naco, Arizona (section)

==History==
The present-day unincorporated town of Naco, Arizona, was established in the early 20th century. The area was originally settled by the Nahua and [[Opata people|Opata]] Indians. ''Naco'' means "[[nopal]] cactus" in  the [[Opata language]].{{citation needed|date=February 2013}} The U.S. Congress officially established Naco as a [[Naco Arizona Port of Entry|Port of Entry]] on June 28, 1902.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Naco, Arizona Port of Entry: Archaeology on the Border|url=http://www.nps.gov/seac/naco/indexeng.htm|publisher=U.S. National Park Service|access-date=November 4, 2012}}</ref> Today, the [[Naco Arizona Port of Entry|Naco port of entry]] is open 24 hours per day.

Occasionally the people on both sides of the border use the border fence as the net in a [[volleyball]] game.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mexico-volleyball-idUSN1421559720070414|title=Both teams at home in U.S.-Mexico border volleyball|date=April 14, 2007|work=Reuters|access-date=February 14, 2019|language=en}}</ref>

===1929 air raid===
The accidental 1929 [[Bombing of Naco]] by Irish-American mercenary [[Patrick Murphy (pilot)|Patrick Murphy]] is notable for being the first and only instance where a town in the Continental United States was bombed by aircraft working for a foreign power.<ref name="Price, pg. 63-67"/> The 1942 [[Lookout Air Raids]], when a Japanese [[floatplane]] pilot made two unsuccessful attempts to start forest fires in rural [[Oregon]], and the 1944-45 unmanned Fu-Go [[Fire balloon]] attacks, also by the Japanese, are the only other cases of the Continental United States enduring aerial bombing by a foreign power. Such events are exceptionally rare in American history because during 20th century conflicts, most notably [[World War I]] and [[World War II]], the continental United States escaped the large-scale [[Aerial bombing of cities|aerial bombings]] that devastated many Asian and European cities.

The background to the bombing of Naco started in early 1929, when José Gonzalo Escobar led a [[Escobar Rebellion|rebellion]] against the government of [[Emilio Portes Gil]]. Mexican federal troops dug in around [[Naco, Sonora|Naco]],

Patrick Murphy was an aviator who owned his own bi-winged airplane and performed tricks with it. Murphy decided to help the rebels by offering to build homemade bombs and drop them on federal positions. His offer was accepted by the rebels, who promised a reward.  Three of his bombs inadvertently landed on the Arizona side of the border, hitting various buildings in Naco.<ref name="natgeo">{{cite journal |date=May 2007 |title= U.S.-Mexico Border |journal= National Geographic |url= http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/05/us-mexican-border/bowden-text.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080803011725/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/05/us-mexican-border/bowden-text.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= August 3, 2008}}</ref><ref name="eppinga">{{cite book |title= Nogales: Life and Times on the Frontier |last= Eppinga |first= Jane |year=2002 |publisher= Arcadia Publishing |location=Ardmore, OK |isbn=0-7385-2405-0 |pages=212–213}}</ref>