Sedona

Sedona
	Nickname : Beverly Hills on the Rocks
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Location in Arizona
	Sedona
	Sedona
Basic data
Foundation :	1902
State :	United States
State :	Arizona
County :	Coconino County
Coordinates :	34 ° 52 ′ N , 111 ° 46 ′ W Coordinates: 34 ° 52 ′ N , 111 ° 46 ′ W
Time zone :	Mountain Standard Time ( UTC − 7 )
Residents :	10,031 (as of 2010)
Population density :	208.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	48.2 km 2 (approx. 19 mi 2 )
Postal code :	86336
Area code :	+1 928
FIPS :	04-65350
GNIS ID :	0034242
Website :	www.sedonaaz.gov
Mayor :	Sandy Moriarty

Sedona is an American city in the Verde Valley in northern Arizona in Coconino and Yavapai Counties .

location

Sedona is 30 miles south of Flagstaff at the exit of Oak Creek Canyon in the Verde Valley. Oak Creek flows through the city .

climate

Due to the location below the Mogollon Rims on the edge of the Colorado Plateau , the climate in Sedona is milder than in the deserts of the plateau all year round, despite the altitude. In the months of December to February, the average night temperature is still below the frost line, from May to September the average daily high is over 28 degrees Celsius, in July the average daily high is 35 degrees. Precipitation is low all year round.

history

From about 4000 BC Until about 1350 the Sinagua Indians settled in their pueblos in the Verde Valley. From 1400 the Yavapai and Apaches followed . The first Europeans in this area were the Spanish prospectors Antonio de Espejo (1583) and Marcos Farfan de los Godas (1598). However, they did not find gold , but copper .

The country belonged to Spain until 1821 and then became the property of Mexico . In 1848, after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , which followed the Mexican-American War , it fell to the United States and was now part of the state of Arizona.

In 1876, John James Thomson, the first settler to arrive in the area. Sedona was founded as a farming village on June 26, 1902 and received city rights in January 1988 . The name of the city comes from the wife of Theodore Carleton "TC" Schnebly, who had opened a post office in the village around 1899. The post office was initially called Oak Creek Crossing and Schnebly Station . Since the name was too long for the postal administration, Schnebly gave the name of his wife Sedona.

With the surrealist artists Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst , who moved to Sedona in 1946, painters, sculptors, writers and members of other creative professions were soon attracted, who significantly shape the cityscape. In 1948, Ernst created his large cement Capricorn sculpture in front of his house. It is only preserved in fragments that are in Berlin. However, there is a plaster cast and some bronze casts in various locations.

In 1946 the Hollywood studio Republic Pictures built a film ranch in Sedona to shoot a total of over 60 western films against this special backdrop. Among them The Black Rider (1947) with John Wayne , Desert Fury - Love wins (1948) with Burt Lancaster , Gun Man (1948) with Robert Mitchum and the classic Johnny Guitar - When women hate (1955) with Joan Crawford , who is particularly strong made use of landscape photography. After Republic went bankrupt in the 1960s, the American television broadcaster CBS bought the site to shoot television productions there.

tourism

Every year between two and three million visitors travel to Sedona for the natural beauty (e.g. Slide Rock State Park ). Another attraction is the Chapel of the Holy Cross, a chapel built into a mountain . The main street with Indian shops, the Mexican-looking shopping center “Tlaquepaque” and the artists' colony “Hillside” are right in the village.

Transport links

Arizona State Routes 89A and 179 run through the city . Sedona Airport is located on the southwestern outskirts of the city . The Interstate Highway I-17 runs about 15 kilometers east of the city, separated by a mountain range.