Arizona

STATUS: State of the U.S.A.

CAPITAL: Phoenix

WORLD LOCATION: Southwest United States

FIRST LICENSE PLATES IN USE: 1913

FIRST STATE ISSUED LICENSE PLATES IN USE: 1914

MOTOR VEHICLES CURRENTLY REGISTERED:  2,900,000

CURRENT SLOGAN: "Grand Canyon State", since 1940.

FORMER SLOGANS: "Marcos de Niza" in 1939.

GRAPHICS USED:  Arizona became the first state to use a pictorial graphic on a plate in 1917, when it incorporated a steer's head between the state name and year on the left end of the plate.  These plates were white on black.  License plates in use from 1932 through 1934 were made of solid copper, and the 1934 issue had a patent number stamped in the edge of the plate, which was another license plate "first".

PLATES ARE: Officially issued.

SINGLE PLATES OR PAIRS: Singles.

OVAL: USA    ISO:  US  

CARS DRIVE ON: Right

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