I live in Maricopa County, in which the Maricopa Freeway (typically referred to as “The 10″) passes through the middle.

Junior has been spending some time in the city of Maricopa, which oddly enough, is not in Maricopa county.

All this Maricoping made me wonder, what’s the origin of the name Maricopa?

According to wikipedia, the world’s most reliable source of information, Marciopa is the name of a Native American ethnic group that is located in Arizona. They are also known as the Piipaash.

So there.