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Eloy is a city in Pinal County, Arizona, about 65 miles southeast of Phoenix and 50 miles northwest of Tucson.

In 1880 the site of Eloy held a Southern Pacific Railroad work camp of boxcars on the Sunset Route, where cotton growing proved viable in the surrounding desert.

The railroad named the stop Eloy in 1902, a name explained as an acronym for "East Line Of Yuma," though a local legend instead derives it from the words "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani."

A town called Cotton City was established in 1918, but the post office rejected that name in 1919 in favor of Eloy, and the city incorporated in 1949.

The 2020 census counted 15,635 residents in Eloy, down from 16,631 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 3,524 households and 4,213 housing units in Eloy, where the median age was 37.1 and 56.2 percent of residents were Hispanic or Latino.

Eloy covers about 113.8 square miles, and its ZIP code is 85131.

CoreCivic is Eloy's largest employer, with 1,546 employees in the city's 2023 financial report, and it operates four facilities in the city: the Eloy Detention Center, opened in 1994; the Red Rock Correctional Center, opened in 2006; the Saguaro Correctional Center, opened in 2007; and the La Palma Correctional Facility, opened in 2008.

Because Eloy's prisons and detention centers house people from other states, including Hawaii, Nevada, Idaho, and Kansas, who are counted in the city's census population, the 2020 census recorded 182.3 males for every 100 females in Eloy.

Eloy is home to Skydive Arizona at the Eloy Municipal Airport, billed as the world's largest skydiving drop zone, and the parachute manufacturers Firebird USA and Sun Path Products are based in the city.