Sierra Vista,Arizona

Sierra Vista is a city in Cochise County,Arizona.It is Fabia's and Casey's hometown and is the capital of birding in Southeast Arizona.Fort Huachuca located in the northwester.Its name in Spanish means "mountain view".It is also home to the largest pre-dominantly Japanese suburb in the United States,known as Makkari,which is in the southwestern part of the city.It is located 75 miles southeast of Tuscon and 188 miles southeast of Phoenix.It is nicknamed "The Hummingbird Capital of the United States".It welcomes birders from all over the world and across the nation who come to observe and photograph the birds that call this area home.

History
When Fort Huachuca was founded in 1877,It was designed to defend against Indians during the Apache Wars 24 years later,Oliver Fry and his sons moved to Arizona from Texas and settled on 320 acres just outside of Fort Huachuca in 1901.The first business that opened was a saloon,a ill house of ill repute,which was opened in 1892 and owned by John and Ellen Reilly,on the eastern gate of Fort Huachuca.In 1911,Margaret Carmichael bought the saloon and leased it back in 1913;The same year,a group of farmers settled within the area and named it Buena with a post office and a schoolhouse to be of service to the children.In 1946,after World War ll,a group of 15,000 Japanese immigrants,Americans of Japanese descent left the relocation camps after Japan surrendered during World War ll and moved to Arizona and a few native-born Americans joined them.They settled in the southwestern corner of town and created the largest pre-dominantly Japanese suburb in the country,and is now bigger than Little Tokyo in Los Angeles and bigger than Chinatown in San Francisco.In 1956,Buena was renamed Sierra Vista.The first McDonald's came to Sierra Vista came in 1975.In 2007,The neighborhood of Makkari voted to secede from the city after becoming impatient with their mayor and then seceded the next year,becoming the City of Makkari.

Notable residents

 * Fabia Higashiyama-Sheen
 * Casey Velasquez
 * Serena Higashiyama-Sheen
 * Shizuka Higashiyama
 * Hanaye Ishizaki
 * Donald Sheen
 * Kanisawa Okazaki
 * Yasuhito Nagatomo
 * Nancy Velasquez
 * Alejandro Velasquez
 * Stuart Healy