Tanque Verde, AZ

Tanque Verde is a suburban unincorporated community northeast of Tucson, set in a valley between the Santa Catalina Mountains and the Rincon Mountains. The name means green tank, a reference to algae in an old stock water tank used in the ranching era. Tanque Verde began as a remote ranching community in the 1860s, but today it is one of the Tucson area's...