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Tacna is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The population was 555 at the 2000 census, and 602 as of 2010. It is part of the Yuma Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Tacna CDP overview:
Name:	Tacna CDP
LSAD Code:	57
LSAD Description:	CDP (suffix)
State:	Arizona
County:	Yuma County
Elevation:	351 ft (107 m)
Total Area:	1.92 sq mi (4.98 km²)
Land Area:	1.92 sq mi (4.98 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	425
Population Density:	221.12/sq mi (85.36/km²)
ZIP code:	85352
Area code:	928
FIPS code:	0471790
GNISfeature ID:	1759214

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History

By 1859, the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach company had opened the Antelope Peak Station at the foot of Antelope Hill. A post office named Tacna was created following the building of the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1870s, but did not last long. The name Tacna subsequently only referred to a railroad siding serving as a watering station. The town of Tacna was founded by Max B. Noah in the early 1920s, named after the railroad stop. At the time he sold the town in 1941, it contained a post office and a restaurant called Noah’s Ark. After the town’s sale, the post office was relocated four miles east, and the original railroad siding was renamed to Noah.

There is an apocryphal story that the name Tacna is derived from Tachnopolis, a Greek priest from California who is supposed to have settled amongst the native population. This claim appears to be entirely an invention of Noah.