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| | Northwest Valley Chamber of Commerce |
 | | Flanked by one of Arizona's largest mountain preserves, and situated in the stunning Saguaro-dotted Sonoran desert on the northwestern edge of the thriving Valley of the Sun, it's no "surprise" that the City of Surprise was Arizona's fastest growing city three years running. |
 | | Surprise was little more than a gas station and a few small houses in 1937 when founder, Homer C. Ludden, subdivided the rural square mile parcel into low-cost home sites for the area's agricultural workers, naming it after his Nebraska hometown. |
 | | With a current population of 96,000, projections are that Surprise's population will reach 300,000 by 2020. |
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