Surprise, Arizona, USA
A city in Maricopa County, Arizona. Would you be surprised living in this city?
The city was founded in 1938 by Flora Mae Statler, who named it Surprise as she
"would be surprised if the town ever amounted to much". Surprise officials previously thought the city was founded by Statler's husband, real estate developer and state legislator Homer C. Ludden, but in 2010 property records were discovered which listed Statler owning the land before she met Ludden.