Editing Springerville, Arizona (section)

==History==
[[File:Springerville Town Hall.jpg|thumbnail|left|Springerville Town Hall in 2009]]

The town that grew around Henry Springer's trading post was officially given its name on May 10, 1876.<ref>{{cite web |last=Becker |first=Jack A |url=http://www.roundvalleyaz.com/page1.html |title=Round Valley As It Was |year=2005 |publisher=roundvalleyaz.com}}</ref> Before that time it had gone by names such as [[Little Colorado River|Colorado Chiquito]], Milligan Settlement, and Valle Redondo (Round Valley).

[[Cochise County Cowboys|Outlaw Cowboy]] [[Ike Clanton]], who was present at the [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]], was shot dead in Springerville on June 1, 1887, by detective Jonas V. Brighton when he resisted arrest on charges of [[cattle raiding|cattle rustling]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roundvalleyaz.com/acc1.html | title = Apache County Critic |date=June 1887}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://clantongang.com/oldwest/gangike.html | title = Joseph Ike Clanton}}</ref>

Springerville is the home of Arizona's ''[[Madonna of the Trail]]'' statue, unveiled on September 29, 1928.<ref>''The Madonna of the Trail Monument" NSDAR Memorial to the Pioneer Mothers of the Covered Wagon Days,'' pamphlet revised July 2002</ref>

The town was incorporated in 1948.

In 1951, Twentieth Century Fox filmed an adaptation of [[Fred Gipson|Fred Gipson's]] novel ''The Home Place'' titled ''[[Return of the Texan]]'' at several locations in and around Springerville.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045083/|title = Return of the Texan|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10657827/|title=Tucson Daily Citizen from Tucson, Arizona on August 9, 1951 · Page 22|date=August 9, 1951 }}</ref>

In June 2011, most of the town was evacuated due to [[Wallow Fire|a nearby wildfire]] some stayed and met with each other alongside residents of Eagar in the round valley dome.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/us/10wildfire.html?ref=us Arizona Wildfire Threatens Electrical Grid], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 9, 2011.</ref>

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