City of Surprise

City Of Surprise was founded in 1960, and is located at 16000 N Civic Center Plz in Surprise. Additional information is available at www.surpriseaz.gov or by contacting Sharon Wolcott at (623) 222-1000.

For those living in Surprise today, it is hard to imagine that our city of 100,000 people was once a sleepy little farming town encompassing just one square mile. But thatbs exactly what Surprise was back in 1938 when it was founded by Homer Ludden, a real estate developer and state legislator. So why did he chose the name Surprise? Ludden named the city after his hometown- Surprise,...