Editing Rio Verde, Arizona (section)

==History==
The area surrounding the Rio Verde community, northeast of downtown Scottsdale, was settled by small farmers in the 1880s, who grew [[hay]] and [[alfalfa]] to provide for nearby [[Fort McDowell, Arizona|Fort McDowell]],l<ref>[http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/ftmcdowell.html Fort McDowell, Arizona<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203023555/http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/ftmcdowell.html |date=December 3, 2007 }}</ref> a [[US Army]] camp (1865–1890) (now the [[Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ftmcdowell.org/ |title=Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=May 20, 2008 |archive-date=March 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110304235033/http://ftmcdowell.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>). In the late 1890s, Frank Asher and William W. Moore acquired several of the small farm plots on the [[Verde River]], combining them into what became the Box Bar Ranch; Moore later bought out Asher's interest. After his death in 1929, Moore's sons, Glen and Lin Moore, operated the Box Bar as a partnership, under the name "Moore Bros Cattle Co.", with grazing leases both east and west of the Verde River. Lin Moore also ran the X2 Ranch, known as "Moore's Well", {{convert|12|mi|km}} to the west, where he and his wife, Ada Lucille, had homesteaded in the 1920s. William Moore's father, [[Ransom B. Moore]], emigrated to Arizona from California in 1883 and ranched for many years on the Reno Ranch, west of the community of [[Punkin Center, Arizona|Punkin Center]] in [[Gila County, Arizona|Gila County]]. Ransom Moore, the founder of what is now [[Banning, California]] also was Gila County's delegate to the 16th Arizona Territorial Legislative Assembly in 1891.

The "Asher Hills" overlooking the community to the west, were named for Frank Asher, who had been Glen Moore's brother-in-law and William Moore's partner for a while. The granddaughter of Asher's wife Ella, [[Jacque Mercer]], was [[Miss Arizona]] and then [[Miss America]] in 1949.

In 1954 the Moore brothers retired from the active cattle business and sold the ranch and their holdings to the Page Land & Cattle Co. (Lin Moore retained the X2 Ranch; after his death in 1960, his widow continued to operate the X2 until selling it in 1970.) The Moores' descendants, including historian Wyatt James, still reside in Maricopa County. A portion of Lin & Lucille Moore's homestead property on the foothills to the south, known as "The Ochoa Place", has recently been incorporated into the expanding [[McDowell Mountains]] McDowell Sonoran Preserve.

In 1970, Page Land & Cattle sold ranch land to Rio Verde Development, Inc., which in 1973 began to develop the tract as the master-planned community of Rio Verde.<ref>[http://www.jennypradler.com/PageManager/Default.aspx/PageID=1996333&NF=1 Scottsdale Real Estate, North Scottsdale Real Estate, Maricopa County Real Estate, Jenny Pradler<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> An 18-hole golf course was completed in 1973, and a second in 1981. Both were extensively renovated in 2007.

The unincorporated community's water is provided through 3 designated aquifers. EPCOR operates the private utility infrastructure they purchased from Rio Verde Utilities in 2018. Rio Verde has nothing to do with Rio Verde Foothills which was provided with water by the City of Scottsdale at cost until January 1, 2023, when the municipal supply was cut due to drought conditions.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Newburger |first=Emma |date=January 17, 2023 |title=Arizona suburb sues the city of Scottsdale for cutting off its water supply |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/17/arizona-suburb-sues-scottsdale-for-cutting-off-its-water-supply-.html |access-date=January 18, 2023 |work=CNBC |language=en}}</ref>{{r|FOX 2023-01-16}} A planned [[water district]] for Rio Verde Foothills was rejected by the [[Maricopa County Board of Supervisors]] in August 2022; several residents filed a lawsuit against the City of Scottsdale to resume service.<ref>{{cite news |last=Healy |first=Jack |date=January 16, 2023 |title=Skipped Showers, Paper Plates: An Arizona Suburb's Water Is Cut Off |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/arizona-water-rio-verde-scottsdale.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=January 17, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Partlow |first=Joshua |date=January 16, 2023 |title=Arizona city cuts off a neighborhood's water supply amid drought |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/16/rio-verde-foothills-water-scottsdale-arizona/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=January 17, 2023}}</ref>