Snowflake (Arizona)
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 Snowflake Arizona Temple |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1878 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Arizona |
| County : | Navajo County |
| Coordinates : | 34 ° 31 ′ N , 110 ° 5 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Mountain Standard Time ( UTC − 7 ) |
| Residents : | 5,590 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 64.4 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 86.97 km 2 (approx. 34 mi 2 ) of which 86.82 km 2 (approx. 34 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 1702 m |
| Postcodes : | 85937, 85942 |
| Area code : | +1 928 |
| FIPS : | 04-67800 |
| GNIS ID : | 0034591 |
| Mayor : | Lynn Johnson |
Snowflake ( Navajo : Tó Diłhił Biih Yílį́ ) is a town in Navajo County in the US state of Arizona . According to the 2010 Census , the community had 5590 inhabitants.
geography
Snowflake is located at 1702 m in the Silver Creek Valley in the Grand Canyon Section of the Colorado Plateau . The place is located in central and eastern Arizona and in the southern section of Navajo County.
Silver Creek runs a little east of the city center and its tributary Cottonwood Wash to the west . This mostly dry river course develops into a raging river after thunderstorms, which sometimes leads to flooding. At its mouth there are three reservoirs that store part of the water after flash floods. Furthermore, the area around Snowflake is crossed by several irrigation ditches.
The somewhat smaller Town Taylor borders in the south .
history
The area around Snowflake (German: Snowflake ) was originally owned by the farmer James Stinson. In the 1870s, Brigham Young , president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , appointed William Jordan Flake to assist with the Mormon colonization of Arizona. After he sold all of his property in Beaver , Utah , he and his family moved to Arizona. They wanted to settle along Silver Creek, but good farmland had long since been taken. In 1877 he arrived in what is now the Snowflake area, where Stinson owned a ranch which he sold to Flake for $ 11,000. The purchase price was paid in the form of 500 cattle from Utah, since only Mexican breeds were common in Arizona at that time.
Shortly after the purchase, more Mormons came to Silver Creek , as the settlement was initially called. Some of the settlers wanted to name the settlement after William Flake, the other part after Erastus Snow, who was responsible for the colonization of Arizona at the time. He visited Silver Creek and gave surveyor Ladd the job of surveying the area and measuring the terrain for the moats. Two days after his visit, he sent a letter officially naming the settlement Snow Flake .
A post office was finally opened on June 27, 1881 .
Demographics
According to the 2010 census , Snowflake had 5,590 people in 1,739 households. The population density was 64.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 3.19 people lived in 1739 households.
The racial the population was composed of 84.6 percent white, 6.5 percent Native American, 6 percent from other ethnic groups, 0.2 percent Asian, 0.2 percent Hawaiian or other Pacific islanders and 0.1 percent African American; 2 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 11.8 percent of the population regardless of ethnicity.
21.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 71.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 6.8 percent were 65 years or older. 49.9 percent of the population were female.
The average annual income for a household was 53,750 USD . The per capita income was $ 16,229. 12.8% percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
traffic
Snowflake is on Arizona State Route 77 , which leads to Holbrook in the north and via Taylor to Show Low in the south. In the center, Arizona State Route 277 branches off to the west, which leads to Heber-Overgaard , and to the east, the Concho Highway , which connects Snowflake with Concho in Apache County .
The city is the terminus of a freight line operated by the Apache Railway , which is based in Snowflake. It leads to the city of Holbrook in the north, where there is a transition to the BNSF Railway . The section between Snowflake and McNary was closed in 1984. The carriage of passengers ceased in the 1950s.
The closest airport is Taylor Airport , which is located in the neighboring town of Taylor. In the municipal area on Old Airport Road are the remains of the Snowflake Municipal Airport , whose runways are now overgrown.
Attractions
In the center of the located National Register of Historic Places registered Historic District Snowflake Townsite . Six buildings are also registered. Snowflake is also home to the Snowflake Monument and the Stinson Pioneer Museum .
The canyon of Silver Creek extends a little to the north and the Sitgreaves National Forest lies to the south and west in the White Mountains and in the Mogollon Rim .
sons and daughters of the town
- Jeff Flake (* 1962), politician and descendant of William Flake
- Stan Turley (1921-2014), politician
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Snowflake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- ↑ Sheryl Karas: Waking Up in the Great Recession Mormon Desert . Lulu.com, 2011, p. 277 ( Snowflake on p. 89 in the Google book search).
- ↑ Story of Snowflake
- ↑ American Fact Finder United States Census Bureau
- ^ Edward A. Lewis: American Shortline Railway Guide . Kalmbach Publishing, Co., 1996, pp. 368 ( Apache Railway on page 25 in the Google book search).