Why, Arizona Traditional Cache
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Little unknown facts about 50 US towns/cities that we all probably have never heard of.
Please park at the gravel pull out off of Vail Rd. When you get to the cache site you'll see it. Please leave pets and little ones inside the car.
When putting cache back, please make it so it can be retrieved by another cacher. You'll see when you find it.
Why is a tiny unincorporated rural community in Pima County, Arizona, United States. It lies near the western border of the Tohono O'Odham Indian Reservation and due north of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Southern Arizona. It is approximately thirty miles north of the Mexican border where Lukeville, Arizona, and Sonoita, Sonora, Mexico, border each other, and ten miles south of Ajo, Arizona.
The population in Why at the 2000 census was approximately 116.
The unusual name of the town comes from the fact that the two major highways, State Routes 85 and 86, originally intersected in a Y-intersection. At the time of its naming, Arizona law required all city names to have at least three letters, so the town's founders named the town "Why" as opposed to simply calling it "Y." The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) later removed the old Y-intersection for traffic safety reasons and built the two highways in a conventional T-intersection south of the original intersection.
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Cebonoyl qba'g arrq n uvag.