Ajo, Arizona

What town: Ajo
State: AZ
Station: Ajo Station Yuma Sector

Population: 3500 (approx)

Telephone Co. Name: Table Top Telephone, Inc.
(520) 387-5600

Electric Co. Name:
Arizona Public Service (520) 387-6741
Ajo Improvement Co. (520) 387-7151

Gas Co Name: Southwest Gas Corporation


Cable Co. Name: Mediacom
520-387-3798

City Trash Name: Rubage Control
520-387-6250
you take your own to the dump

City Water Name:
Ajo Domestic Water Improvement District (520) 387-6385
Ajo Improvement Co. (520) 387-7151
Ajo Water Co. (520) 387-6668
Why Utility Company PO Box 7128, Why, AZ 85321

Sewer: Ajo Improvement Co.
(520) 387-715

Clinic Name: Desert Senita Community Health Center
520-387-5651

Parks and Rec. Pima County Parks and Rec
520-387-6641

Newspaper Name: Ajo Copper News
520-387-7688

Chamber of Commerce: Ajo Chamber of Commerce
520-387-3641

Convention & Visitors Bureau:

HELPFUL WEBSITES

Local Union's Web site: Local 2544
Local Union's Forum:

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Station type of work - For the most part all the Agents work well with each other. The Management is pretty good.

There is a lot of good work in Ajo and a smaller station (approx 70 Agents). They have a small checkpoint, and couple roving X's (no hard X's that I know of).

It is mostly patrol, sign cutting, tracking, you know real patrol work. They have about 75 miles of just border not counting interior. So they have a large area to cover. They catch a variety of things, illegal's, dope, etc.

They back up local Sheriff and respond to citizen calls. Since I left, they have added Horse Patrol, K-9, and Motorcycle Patrol. They also have ATV's. They have a disrupt unit now also.

Shopping - One IGA grocery store, one pharmacy
Go to Phoenix!!

Eateries - Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen a couple of local mexican restaurants, Bamboo Village Chinese Restaurant--excellent food!

Cellular Telephone - Alltel

Local Internet Providers - Table Top Telephone

Schools: Ajo

Other Services -
Ajo has one outpatient clinic and two doctors. Medical professionals also one internist/cardiologist, an orthopedist, a podiatrist, two chiropractors, and one physical therapist that comes once a week from Phoenix.

Any other information that you would like to add:
Transportation services to Tucson and Phoenix and throughout Ajo are provided by Ajo Stage Lines.
This town is very small. Some agents live as much as an hour
away, just to be near a town. The closest actual city is a little over an
hour away. We have one school for K-12 that has 575 kids.
There is a Christian Academy at one of the local churches, but it is just getting
started and is full and they only take kids until 8th grade.
We have very limited medical resources and most families go to Phoenix or Tucson
for medical care. We have no day care, all of the child care in town
is done at someone's home.