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Show Low, Arizona is located within Navajo County; it is at an elevation of 6,345 feet, above the Mogollon Rim in east central Arizona. Show Low, Arizona was established in 1870 and incorporated in 1953.  Show Low was named after a legendary poker game between C.E. Cooley and Marion Clark. During the marathon poker game there wasn’t enough room in the area for the both of them in this settlement and it came to head to whom was going to show the lowest card wins and loser moves out of town. Clark said, “If you can show low, you win.” Cooley turned over his card which was the deuce of clubs (deuce of clubs was the lowest possible card) and he replied, “Show Low it is.” Downtown Show Low’s main street is name the “Deuce of Clubs.”