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Flagstaff, Arizona real estate is the growing population center of Coconino County in the vast north-central part of the state that includes about half of Grand Canyon National Park as well as national forests, national monuments and Indian reservations. New residents continue to move into Flagstaff, Arizona existing homes or resale homes. Searching Flagstaff MLS resale listings is almost effortless on NewHomesRealEstate.net because we have volumes of comprehensive listings of Flagstaff existing homes for sale, from mansions to investment properties to condominiums to townhouses.
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We invite you to review our MLS listings and once you have found a resale home you are interested in, call us toll-free (1-888-441-1385) or complete our very short information request form online. Either way you will be contacted shortly by a Buyer’s Agent and you will begin your exciting home search with a company that has helped thousands of home buyers find their Flagstaff dream home. Flagstaff, Arizona Area DemographicsFlagstaff, Arizona real estate is the largest city in the entire northern half of the state and the gateway to one of the truly magnificent natural wonders of the world: the Grand Canyon, a colorful, scenic, deep gorge about 277 miles long that was cut by the waters of the Colorado River over a period of about 2 billion years, according to geologists. The Grand Canyon is about 80 miles north of Flagstaff, which bills itself as the “City of Seven Wonders,” a reference to the Grand Canyon’s place on modern-day lists of the world’s top-seven, truly awe-inspiring places, as well as six other beautiful natural local sites, including Oak Creek Canyon, Walnut Canyon, Wupatki National Monument, Sunset Crater National Monument and the San Francisco Peaks.
At 18,661 square miles, Coconino County is the second-largest county by area in the 48 contiguous states of the U.S., after San Bernardino County, California (20,105 square miles). Coconino County was formed in 1891, with Flagstaff as the county seat, when Yavapai County, one of the state’s four original counties, was subdivided.
Originally settled in 1871, Flagstaff takes its name from an 1876 event, when a group who had arrived from Boston, Massachusetts and celebrated the U.S. centennial by converting a large Ponderosa pine tree into a flagpole to mark the city as a destination for others heading west. Flagstaff was incorporated as a town in 1894 and as a city in 1924.
Flagstaff lies near the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau and along the western side of the largest contiguous Ponderosa pine forest on Earth at an elevation of around 7,000 feet. Flagstaff is located just south of the San Francisco Peaks (known locally as “The Peaks”), the highest mountain range in the state of Arizona.
With a population of 57,038 (2005 U.S. census estimate), Flagstaff is growing at a moderate rate, about 2 percent per year, and is home to nearly half of the county’s non-Native American residents. (U.S. census data do not include Native Americans, as Indian tribes are considered sovereign nations.) Nineteen Indian reservations dot the entire Arizona landscape and account for about one-quarter of the state’s lands. Four Indian nations maintain reservations in Coconino County: the Havasupai (formerly known as the Coconino), Navajo, Hualapai and Hopi. More than 131,000 Navajo live in Arizona and Navajo and Hopi reservations make up a large portion of northeastern Coconino County.
The only other city in Coconino County with a population over 10,000 is Sedona, Arizona (population: 10,192), but part of Sedona lies in adjacent Yavapai County. Page, Arizona, a small city northeast of the Grand Canyon near the Utah border and Lake Powell and at the northwestern edge of the Navajo Indian Reservation, had a 2000 population of 6,809 and now has an estimated 9,000 residents. The unincorporated community of Tuba City, Arizona, inside the Navajo reservation, has a population of 8,225. Unincorporated Grand Canyon Village has a population of 1,460. About 20 other small towns and unincorporated communities lie inside Coconino County.
Flagstaff has a variable climate, but with four distinct seasons. A combination of high altitude, low humidity and wide-ranging terrain provide mild weather conditions and clear air throughout most of the year, except winter. Residents of Flagstaff, located in the southeastern part of Coconino County, enjoy moderate summers, but sometimes severe winters. Summer temperatures are moderate and high temperatures average around 80 degrees (about 20 degrees lower than Phoenix, which is less than 150 miles south). Brief, but often intense, afternoon rain showers and thunderstorms are common during the monsoon season during July and August. The average annual snowfall at Flagstaff is 108.8 inches and the average annual rainfall is 22.8 inches.
Flagstaff, Arizona History and CultureAlthough the history of its founding is somewhat murky, Flagstaff, Arizona real estate traces its origins to its first settler, Edward Whipple, who operated a saloon near “Flagstaff Spring” in 1871. F.F. McMillen arrived in 1876 and settled north of the present city at either Leroux Spring, San Francisco Spring or Antelope Spring to raise sheep. Later that year, advance scouts for a contingent of prospective settlers from Boston arrived and legend has it, stripped a pine tree and affixed an American flag at the top to announce their position to later arrivals. Some historical evidence indicates the “flagstaff” was erected in May of that year, although it is generally accepted that it occurred on the Fourth of July, the nation’s 100th anniversary. In any event, the emigrants did not remain in the area, which had less than 20 settlers in 1880. Another version is that a military troop may have created the flagstaff. Another account, written five years after Flagstaff was established, states that Lt. E.F. Beale’s men set up the pole in 1859.
The name of the spring at the old location underwent several changes, starting with Antelope, then Flagstaff, and then — with the creation of the new town and the arrival of the railroad — Old Town Spring. In 1882, there were 10 buildings at Old Town, but in 1883 business moved to the new railroad depot and by 1884 Old Town was almost deserted.
Another of Flagstaff’s early influential citizens was John Weatherford, who opened the Hotel Weatherford on New Year’s Day, 1900. The old hotel has welcomed both presidents and gunslingers from the Wild West and continues to operate today after an extensive restoration. In 1911, Weatherford opened the Majestic Opera House, which showed Flagstaff residents their first movies. On New Year’s Day, 1915, Majestic Opera House’s roof and walls collapsed under 61 inches of snow. Undeterred, Weatherford rebuilt a bigger and better theater, The Orpheum, which opened in 1917. Today, the Orpheum is a Flagstaff landmark and continues to entertain a new generation of Flagstaff residents and visitors.
Flagstaff enjoys a convenient location as the gateway to Grand Canyon, where local history is constantly on display due to the slow but relentless flow of the Colorado River, which has exposed eons of history in the sedimentary rock formations. Nowhere else on Earth offers such a rich, detailed history of place.
Despite Flagstaff’s relatively recent history and the challenges presented by the rugged landscape, people have inhabited Coconino County for thousands of years. The county’s name derives from the Coconino Indians, of whom today’s Havasupai are descendants. Actually, the word “Coconino” is the Hopi designation for Havasupai and Yavapai Indians. (The Cohonina — note the slight difference in spelling — lived west of the current site of Grand Canyon Village.) A handful of Havasupai still live in the canyon.
Evidence of human habitation near the Grand Canyon dates to about 10,500 years ago and Native Americans have lived in the area for at least 4,000 years. Artifacts from Anasazi basket makers and pueblo dwellers have been found in Coconino County. The Navajo tribe inhabited the land prior to its discovery by Europeans, when Capt. Garcia Lopez de Cardenas led a party of Spanish soldiers with Hopi guides to the Grand Canyon in 1540. Not finding the gold they sought, they departed and more than 200 years passed before two Spanish priests, Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante, were the next non-Native Americans to see the canyon, in 1776. In 1869, U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell led the Powell Expeditions through the canyon on the Colorado River, setting a foundation for the science of geology by cataloguing and photographing rock formations, plants, animals and archeological sites. Clarence Dutton added to the geological legacy in 1880-81. The first pioneer settlements along the canyon’s rim came in the 1880s. Copper and asbestos mining began, but early residents soon discovered that tourism would become the area’s main industry.
After the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad arrived in 1883, northern Yavapai County began to grow. The people in the northern part of the county grew weary of traveling more than 200 miles to Prescott, the Yavapai County seat, and in 1887 petitioned for the creation of a new county, but they were twice rebuffed until Coconino County was formed in 1891.
At first, most visitors made the grueling trip from nearby towns to the canyon’s South Rim by stagecoach. In 1901 the Grand Canyon Railway was opened from Williams, Arizona, to the South Rim and the development of formal tourist facilities, especially at Grand Canyon Village, increased dramatically. The Fred Harvey Company developed many facilities at the Grand Canyon, including the luxury El Tovar Hotel on the South Rim in 1905 and Phantom Ranch in the Inner Gorge in 1922. Although first afforded federal protection in 1893 as a forest reserve and later as a U.S. national monument, Grand Canyon did not achieve U.S. National Park status until 1919, when it had 44, 173 visitors. Today, Grand Canyon National Park receives about 5 million visitors annually.
Northern Arizona Normal School was established at Flagstaff in 1899 and renamed Northern Arizona University in 1966. Route 66, the famous transcontinental highway, passes through Flagstaff.
In addition to tourism, Coconino County’s economy also relies on the agricultural, lumber and livestock industries.
Flagstaff, Arizona Attractions, Activities and AmenitiesFlagstaff, Arizona real estate is a place of natural beauty and a popular vacation destination for people from all across the country.
The Grand Canyon, carved out of the land by the Colorado River over about 2 billion years, is 277 miles long and an average of 10 miles wide as it winds through northwestern Arizona. The canyon bottom is more than a mile (about 5,700 feet) above the North Rim, which is about 1,200 feet higher than the South Rim, although the South Rim is more accessible. The best place to view the canyon is in Coconino County at Grand Canyon Village, about 80 miles north of Flagstaff. Trails lead into the canyon. Backpacking and camping are popular, but both require a permit. Raft trips on the river provide lasting memories. A historic, scenic railway and sightseeing buses operate for the less adventurous. The Grand Canyon Railway offers daylong trips from Williams Arizona to the South Rim on a vintage train, with strolling musicians and Western characters on board. Helicopter and airplane tours are available, but are restricted to designated areas. Historic lodges provide accommodations. The Grand Canyon is simply a fantastic, breathtaking destination that everyone should see when they come to Arizona.
Meteor Crater, in southeastern Coconino County near Winslow, Arizona, was formed about 50,000 years ago by a meteorite estimated at 150 feet across and weighing several hundred tons. The space rock left a crater originally 700 feet deep and nearly a mile in diameter. NASA once trained Apollo astronauts at the site, which is now open for tours and includes interactive displays, a large-screen theater, astronaut exhibits and an Apollo space capsule.
The Wupatki National Monument and nearby Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, north of Flagstaff, contain hundreds of well-preserved Indian ruins originally inhabited in the 12th and early 13th centuries until the volcano erupted.
Flagstaff makes a good base for touring the surrounding sites. The nearby snow-framed San Francisco Peaks provide a scenic backdrop for the city, which celebrates its railroad heritage and contains many historic building dating back a century and more in its friendly downtown. The Arboretum of Flagstaff features more than 2,500 plants in both natural settings and formal gardens. Lowell Observatory was the first to discover Pluto and offers nightly viewings of the heavens through its 24-inch Clark refracting telescope.
Oak Creek Canyon, south of Flagstaff on the way to Sedona, is 16 miles long and a mile wide and known for its spectacularly-colored rocky cliffs.
The Painted Desert, which stretches across much of northern Arizona, is famously known for its bright red rocks that are especially beautiful when they turn into shades of violet, blue and red at sunset or sunrise.
Flagstaff is indeed a beautiful place to live. Whether you seek a luxury home, a starter home, a condominium, a townhouse or an investment property, NewHomesRealEstate.net can help you find the Flagstaff, Arizona real estate you desire.
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