{{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Randolph, Arizona |official_name = |settlement_type = Populated place |nickname = |motto =

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<!-- Area/postal codes & others --> |postal_code_type = ZIP codes |postal_code = |area_code = 520 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = {{FIPS|04|58920}} |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = {{GNIS4|9954}} |website = |footnotes = }} '''Randolph''' is a historically black populated place in Pinal County, Arizona, United States, located approximately 15 miles north of Picacho, and near Casa Grande. The community was named after Epes Randolph, a vice-president and general manager of the Southern Pacific Railroad, who founded the town in the early 1920s.<ref name=APN>{{cite book | title=Arizona Place Names | last1=Barnes | first1=Will Croft | publisher=University of Arizona Press | year=2016 | place=Tucson | page=355 |isbn=978-0816534951 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYorDQAAQBAJ&q=Hibbard}}</ref> Randolph wanted to establish a successful city near Casa Grande.<ref name=Okies>{{cite book | title=Not All Okies Are White | last1=LeSeur | first1=Geta J. | publisher=University of Missouri Press | year=2000 |isbn=082626221X |url=https://archive.org/details/notallokiesarewh00lese| url-access=registration | quote=Randolph, Arizona. }}</ref>{{rp|9}} On July 18, 1925, the Randolph Post Office opened, with Channing E. Babbitt as its postmaster.<ref name=APN /> With the increased need for agricultural workers which arose in the late 1920s, hundreds of farm workers migrated to the area in the 1930s. Many of those who settled in Randolph were black migrants from Oklahoma. This influx created a community which was predominantly black.<ref name=Okies />{{rp|27}} The post office closed in 1983.<ref name=Okies />{{rp|30}}

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Category:African-American history of Arizona Category:Populated places in Pinal County, Arizona