Beardsley is a populated place situated within the Sun City West CDP in

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, United States. It has an estimated elevation of above sea level, and was named for William H. Beardsley, an irrigation pioneer who began an irrigation project at this location in 1888.

History

The town began in 1880 around a railroad station. Much of town was bulldozed in the 1940s to make way for the railroad. For years it served as a sheep shearing point on the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railroad. Beardsley's population was 12 in the 1960 census.

References

{{authority control Populated places in Maricopa County, Arizona