USS Arizona salvaged artifacts are located in Phoenix. One of two salvaged bells of USS "Arizona" is on display in the University of Arizona Student Union Memorial Center in Tucson, and Glendale Veteran's Memorial in the city of Glendale, Arizona is constructed using material from the wreck of the battleship. Also included in this list of salvaged artifacts is a piece of steel salvaged from USS "Arizona" on display at the USS "South Dakota" Memorial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. was a named after Arizona, the 48th state which was admitted to the Union in 1912. She was built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
Admission to the Union an equal footing with those already in existence. Of the 37 states admitted to the Union by Congress, all but six have been established within an existing U.S. organized incorporated territory. A state so created might encompass all or a portion of a territory. When the people of a territory or a region thereof would make their desire for statehood known to the federal government, in most cases Congress passed an enabling act authorizing the people of that territory or region to frame a proposed state constitution as a step toward admission to the Union. Although the use of an