| Tatum Ranch community in Cave Creek, Arizona. Located in the Tatum Corridor, nearby to Quail Run. and Falcon Ridge.
Tatum Ranch is a master-planned community of 3,400 homes and five commercial sites in the northeast corner of Phoenix, where North Tatum Boulevard and Cave Creek Road meet.
The Ranch is within the Upland Sonoran Desert life zone, with seven washes or arroyos, trending northeast to southwest. It is home to some of the most beautiful native Sonoran Desert vegetation and wildlife in the entire Southwest. Residents enjoy the quiet beauty and serenity of the Desert. Elevation is about 1,800 feet. Because of its distance from the center of the metropolitan area (22 air miles) and its proximity to the New River Mountains to the north, the summer temperatures are usually 5 to 10 degrees cooler than recorded at Sky Harbor, and the night sky is dark. The small town of Cave Creek, Arizona is just six miles to the north. The Ranch is within both the City of Phoenix and the Cave Creek Unified School District.
The Ranch is five miles north of the 101 Freeway, and 35 miles north of Phoenix Sky Harbor airport. The Carefree Highway, the quickest approach to Interstate 17, is 3 miles north. The Ranch was created and developed by SunCor Development Company beginning in 1988. Homes in 30 neighborhoods were built by Amberwood, Diamond Key, Golden Heritage, Kaufman and Broad, Maracay, Ryland, Saddleback, TW Lewis, and UDC.
Three neighborhoods are gated. The community benefits from the 410-foot wide Cave Creek Road scenic highway corridor that keeps the roadsides in natural desert plants and shrubs. The arterial streets with the Ranch have desert landscaping in their median strips.
Land immediately to the north, east, and south of the Ranch is occupied with residential lots one acre or more. Land to the west of the Ranch is State Trust Land, with a portion dedicated as Sonoran Preserve. SunCor created the Tatum Ranch Community Association to own, maintain, and insure the common areas, preserve the community's appearance and theme, and establish a sense of community.
All Tatum Ranch homeowners are members of the Association. Inside the Ranch is the new Desert Willows Elementary School (older Ranch students are bussed to Cave Creek schools) and three commercial areas (Safeway, Walgreen's, a medical and dental clinic, restaurants, and retail stores). A new Phoenix Fire Station is one mile south of the Ranch. The nearest hospital is the Mayo Clinic Hospital, five miles south.
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