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Yuma

Yumas \Yu"mas\, n. pl.; sing. Yuma. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians native of Arizona and the adjacent parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate corn, wheat, barley, melons, etc.

Note: The a wider sense, the term sometimes includes the Mohaves and other allied tribes.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Yuma

native people of Arizona, also their language, of the Yuman family, the name probably is from O'odham (Piman) yu'mi and represents the name the Piman peoples applied to the Yuma people.

Gazetteer
Yuma, AZ -- U.S. city in Arizona
Population (2000): 77515
Housing Units (2000): 34475
Land area (2000): 106.650045 sq. miles (276.222337 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.067130 sq. miles (0.173866 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 106.717175 sq. miles (276.396203 sq. km)
FIPS code: 85540
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 32.692148 N, 114.615389 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 85364
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Yuma, AZ
Yuma
Yuma, CO -- U.S. city in Colorado
Population (2000): 3285
Housing Units (2000): 1393
Land area (2000): 2.432251 sq. miles (6.299501 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005214 sq. miles (0.013503 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.437465 sq. miles (6.313004 sq. km)
FIPS code: 86750
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.122881 N, 102.724885 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 80759
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Yuma, CO
Yuma
Yuma -- U.S. County in Colorado
Population (2000): 9841
Housing Units (2000): 4295
Land area (2000): 2365.792149 sq. miles (6127.373276 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.304134 sq. miles (8.557668 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2369.096283 sq. miles (6135.930944 sq. km)
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.039416 N, 102.482412 W
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Yuma, CO
Yuma County
Yuma County, CO
Yuma -- U.S. County in Arizona
Population (2000): 160026
Housing Units (2000): 74140
Land area (2000): 5514.089039 sq. miles (14281.424443 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.870033 sq. miles (12.613327 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5518.959072 sq. miles (14294.037770 sq. km)
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 32.684752 N, 114.388951 W
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Yuma, AZ
Yuma County
Yuma County, AZ
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Yuma

Yuma can refer to:

Yuma (film)

Yuma is a 1971 western TV-film, starring Clint Walker, directed by Ted Post and shot in Old Tucson. The film was originally a television pilot that appeared on the ABC Movie of the Week.

Yuma (footballer)

Javier Monsálvez Carazo (born 8 October 1985), commonly known as Yuma, is a Spanish footballer who plays for American club Rayo OKC as a central midfielder.

Usage examples of "yuma".

But it only came to me when a Mex pal told me how lots of Anglo settlers had been experimenting in the desert around Yuma with exotic crops that the lying gal might have fed me a half truth about another retired doc entirely.

The Bugologist with his one orderly, and apparently without the Apache Yuma scouts, had gone straightway to the rescue of Wren.

The town leader was running up the flag of the Rebels as the column rolled out the next morning, heading for Yuma.

Ben and his contingent of Rebels stayed in Yuma for four days, while the medics checked over the newly freed people and determined who needed what in the way of medicines.

Darkness had settled softly over the land, and the Rebels camped between Yuma and Mexicali rested.

Yuma reached for the saltshaker and then just held it as if it were a lifeline.

Except that Yuma, like most other vets, knew the past had a hellish way of resurrecting itself.

Like most guidebooks, this one was instantly out of date, but the reference to Yuma had some interest.

Arizona into California are Highways 15 from Las Vegas, Nevada, the 40 from Kingman, Arizona, the 10 from Phoenix, and 8 coming up from Yuma.

Two others had been medivacked to the Yuma hospital, barely alive, seriously dehydrated.

We got out of Yuma at once and jumped to a guest ranch near Tucson, where we had a cabin away from the main lodge and equipped with our own Eager Beaver to fetch and carry so that we did not need to see anyone.

Riverside, Five Points, Butler, Hackettstown, Natick, Long Beach, Yuma, Fresno, Amarillo, Grants, Parktown, Bremerton, Coronado, Worcester, Wickenberg, Santa Ana, Vicksburg, LaSalle, Morganfield, Blaisville, Barstow, Wallkyll, Boise, Yakima, St.

It seems he run Sternwood’s hotcha daughter, the young one, off to Yuma.

No radio signal had come from the Highway Patrol at the most obvious interception places near Quartzsite or Yuma.

The Yumas had already left the dunes and they could see the smoke rising darkly along the river bluff.