The Tales of San Ramon: Volume 3

Welcome the San Gabriel Valley and small town of San Ramon, the county seat of Chiricahua County, Arizona. The county's northern border is the Gila River that was in 1881, a flowing oasis of cool mountain water. The southern border was just beyond the Picacho Mountains. The Tortolita Mountains marked the eastern border with the Sayante Mountains on the western border.
All 894 people living in Chiricahua county signed a petition demanding the legislature create a new county. On March 1, 1881, the Arizona Territorial legislature formed Chiricahua County from parts of Pinal and Pima counties. There are two interesting facts about Chiricahua County, Arizona. The population of the county in 1881 was three hundred people, at most. Godfrey Chalmer, a historian working for the state achieves in Phoenix, discovered the fraudulent petition in 1936, fifty-five years after they organized Chiricahua County. The odd thing about the fraudulent petition no one knows for sure why there was a petition in the first place.
The other strange fact is that somehow the legislature misnamed the county. No one in the history of the San Gabriel Valley ever remembers the Chiricahua people of southeastern, Arizona even visiting the valley. The county motto is, "Chiricahua County, A Warm and Comfortable Place to Live"