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Tempe is an incorporated city in Maricopa County, Arizona, in the East Valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area, bordered by Phoenix and Guadalupe to the west, Scottsdale to the north, Chandler to the south, and Mesa to the east.

The 2020 census counted 180,587 residents in Tempe.

The 2010 census counted 63,602 households in Tempe.

Tempe grew out of two territorial-era settlements beside Hayden Butte: Hayden's Ferry, west of the butte, and San Pablo, east of it.

Hayden's Ferry took its name from the ferry across the Salt River started in 1871 by Charles Trumbull Hayden, whose cable-operated ferry became the key river crossing in the area.

Pioneer Darrell Duppa suggested the name Tempe in 1879, saying the Salt River valley by the butte reminded him of the Vale of Tempe near Mount Olympus in Greece.

In 1885 the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature chose Tempe as the site of the Territorial Normal School, which became Arizona State University in 1958.

Tempe is home to the main campus of Arizona State University, the university's first and largest campus.

The Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad crossed the Salt River at Tempe in 1887, linking the town to the national rail network.

The Salt River runs through northern Tempe, where it is dammed to form Tempe Town Lake, which opened to the public on November 7, 1999.