Editing List of counties in Arizona (section)

== Proposed counties ==
* '''Butte County''': In 1897, James C. Goodwin, with the support of [[Charles T. Hayden]] and others, introduced a bill at the Territorial Legislature to split Maricopa County into two, with [[Tempe, Arizona|Tempe]] being the county seat.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rowe|first1=Jeremy|title=Early Maricopa County: 1871–1920|date=2011|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-7416-5|page=39|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zl9VCIQy09MC&q=divide+maricopa+county&pg=PA39|access-date=November 15, 2017}}</ref><ref name="RepublicButteCounty">{{cite news|last1=Mark|first1=Jay|title=Tempe history: Tempe – Seat of Butte County|url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe-history/2017/01/12/tempe-history-tempe-seat-butte-county/96219408/|access-date=November 15, 2017|work=[[The Arizona Republic]]|date=January 12, 2017}}</ref> There have also been proposals, introduced in 1900 and 1913, to divide Maricopa County, with [[Mesa, Arizona|Mesa]] as the new county's seat.<ref name="RepublicButteCounty"/>
* '''Sierra Bonita County''': proposed at the [[13th Arizona Territorial Legislature]] in 1885, with [[Willcox, Arizona|Willcox]] proposed as the county seat. The proposal died by one vote.<ref>{{cite book|last1=McClintock|first1=James H.|title=Arizona, Prehistoric, Aboriginal, Pioneer, Modern: The Nation's Youngest Commonwealth Within a Land of Ancient Culture, Volume 2|date=1916|publisher=S. J. Clarke publishing Company|location=Arizona|pages=334|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xEQOAAAAIAAJ|access-date=February 17, 2017}}</ref>