Circle City, Arizona
| Circle City, Arizona | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
 Location of Circle City in Maricopa County, Arizona |
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| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| County | Maricopa |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 1,402 |
| Time zone | Mountain (MST) (UTC-7) |
| ZIP codes | 85342 |
| GNIS feature ID | 2956[1] |
Circle City is an unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. 14 miles northwest of Surprise, Arizona, on U.S. Route 60. As of 2000, it had a population of 1402, with 753 households.[2]
The development was built in the late 1950s by The Workmen's Circle, a Jewish fraternal and mutual aid society with roots in the Socialist movement of the early 20th century, as a retirement community for its aging members.[3] Streets in the community are named for figures important to the Circle's membership, including Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz; Baruch Charney Vladeck, a labor leader and manager of The Jewish Daily Forward; New York Socialist politicians August Claessens, Morris Hillquit, and Meyer London; Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor; and, four-time Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs.
References
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‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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