Flagstaff, Arizona

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• Coconino County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 51 shown

• Lowell ObservatoryNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• C. Hart Merriam Base Camp SiteNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Ashurst Houselisted 1984
• Bank Hotellisted 1977
• Brannen-Devine Houselisted 1986
• C & M Garagelisted 1986
• H. E. Campbell Houselisted 1986
• Canyon Padre Bridgelisted 1988
• J. M. Clark Houselisted 1984
• Coconino County Hospital Complexlisted 1986
• Dean Eldredge Museumlisted 1994
• First Baptist Churchlisted 1991

Every listing in Coconino County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 13 shown

• Lowell Observatory, 1400 West Mars Hill Road, Flagstafffederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Lowell Observatory, Clark Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstafffederal building survey, 12 photographs
• Lowell Observatory, Lodge, Flagstafffederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Lowell Observatory, Mausoleum, Flagstafffederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Lowell Observatory, Pluto Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstafffederal building survey, 11 photographs
• Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstafffederal building survey, 22 photographs
• Lowell Observatory, Water Tank, Flagstafffederal building survey, 1 photograph
• U. S. Geological Survey Center of Astrogeology, Building No. 1, Flagstaff Field Center, 2255 North Gemini Drive, Flagstafffederal building survey, 3 photographs
• U.S. Geological Survey Center of Astrogeology, Photolab, 2255 North Gemini Drive, Flagstafffederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Wupatki, Ball Court, U.S. Highway 89, Loop Road, Flagstafffederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Wupatki, Citadel Ruin, U.S. Highway 89, Loop Road, Flagstafffederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Wupatki, Wukoki Ruin, U.S. Highway 89, Loop Road, Flagstafffederal building survey, 1 photograph

Every surveyed structure in Coconino County

Flagstaff grew from 964 to 76,831 between 1890 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1886 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000
• 1891 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000
• 1894 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1899 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000
• 1908 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:125000
• 1912 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1947 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Flagstaff West quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1982 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 889 fires within 5 miles of Flagstaff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,138 acres in total. 195 started naturally. 30 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Cogdill Center
• East Flagstaff
• Fort Tuthill
• Riordan
• Elden Pueblo

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Flagstaff: 9 past producers, 8 unknowns, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flagstaff in 98 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 36 hail, 18 flood, 15 flash flood, 10 heavy rain. The reports record 3 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Coconino County

5 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 2,205 issues, 20,149 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 17 issues spread across its run from 1891 to 1927, 60,495 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 29046. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.