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Sacaton (village)

Coordinates: 33°4′N 111°44′W / 33.067°N 111.733°W / 33.067; -111.733
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Sacaton, Arizona
Sacaton, Arizona is located in Arizona
Sacaton, Arizona
Sacaton, Arizona
Location in Arizona
Sacaton, Arizona is located in the United States
Sacaton, Arizona
Sacaton, Arizona
Location in United States
Sacaton, Arizona is located in North America
Sacaton, Arizona
Sacaton, Arizona
Location in North America
Coordinates: 33°4′N 111°44′W / 33.067°N 111.733°W / 33.067; -111.733

Sacaton or Socatoon was a village of the Maricopa people, established above the Pima Villages, (now the Gila River Indian Community) after the June 1, 1857, in the Battle of Pima Butte where it appears a few months later in the 1857 Chapman Census. Sacaton village lay on the Gila River, 3.75 miles west of modern Sacaton.

The 1858–1861 Socatoon Station of the Butterfield Overland Mail located four miles east of the village took its name from this village.[1]

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