Editing Pinal County, Arizona (section)

==History==
Pinal County was carved out of neighboring [[Maricopa County, Arizona|Maricopa County]] and [[Pima County, Arizona|Pima County]] on February 1, 1875, during the [[8th Arizona Territorial Legislature|Eighth Legislature]]. In the August 18, 1899, issue of ''The Arizona Magazine,'' the name "Pinal" is said to come from the pine-clad [[Pinal Mountains]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Granger |first=Byrd Howell |date=1983 |title=Arizona's Names (X Marks the Place) |location=Tucson, AZ |publisher=The Falconer Publishing Company |page=483 |isbn=0918080185}}</ref> Pinal County was the second-fastest-growing county in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-01.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-01.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=PopulationDistributionandChange:2000to2010|date=March 2011|publisher=UnitedStatesCensusBureau|page=9|access-date=March 26, 2011}}</ref>

In 2010, CNN Money named Pinal County as the second fastest growing county in the USA.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fastest Growing U.S. Counties|url=https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/real_estate/1006/gallery.fastest_growing_US_counties/2.html|access-date=March 30, 2014|date=June 21, 2010|agency=CNN Money}}</ref>

Pinal County has been identified as the second riskiest county for combined impacts of climate change from 2040 to 2060, largely due to high risks of extreme heat, fire hazard and economic and crop damages.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shaw |first=Al |last2=Lustgarten |first2=Abrahm |last3=Goldsmith |first3=Jeremy W. |date=September 15, 2020 |title=New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States |url=https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration |access-date=September 30, 2023 |website=ProPublica |language=en}}</ref>