The Cardinals conduct their annual summer training camp at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

While a young researcher working for the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Tombaugh was given the job to perform a systematic search for a trans-Neptunian planet ( also called Planet X ), which had been predicted by Percival Lowell and William Pickering.

* Coconino County Community College, Flagstaff, Arizona

Before joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he worked at the U. S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Center at Flagstaff, Arizona, developing geological field techniques that would be used by the Apollo crews.

In 1894, with the help of William Pickering, Percival Lowell, a wealthy Bostonian, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Percival Lawrence Lowell ( March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916 ) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death.

Today, the observatory's primary observational work is done at the U. S. Navy's higher elevation United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station ( NOFS ) near Flagstaff, Arizona.

The final dark sky site chosen was Flagstaff, Arizona, and so the 40-inch telescope was moved to that location, beginning operations at the new Navy command, now called the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station ( NOFS ).

USNO continues to maintain its dark-sky observatory, NOFS, near Flagstaff, Arizona, which also now oversees the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer.

** Flagstaff ( Amtrak station ), in Arizona

** United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, Arizona, when recording astronomical observations

Image: Gargoyles-StPartickFlagstaf. jpg | Chimera of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Chapel in Flagstaff, Arizona

Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater approximately east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States.

Flagstaff (, or ) is a city located in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States.

Flagstaff is located adjacent to Mount Elden, just south of the San Francisco Peaks, the highest mountain range in the state of Arizona.

Humphreys Peak, the highest point in Arizona at, is located about north of Flagstaff in Kachina Peaks Wilderness.

Today, the city remains an important distribution hub for companies such as Nestlé Purina PetCare and Walgreens, and is home to Lowell Observatory, The U. S. Naval Observatory, the United States Geological Survey Flagstaff Station and Northern Arizona University.

Flagstaff has a strong tourism sector, due to its proximity to Grand Canyon National Park, Oak Creek Canyon, the Arizona Snowbowl, Meteor Crater and historic Route 66.

The orchestra continues today as the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, with its primary venue at the Ardrey Auditorium on the campus of Northern Arizona University.

One such dust devil struck the Coconino County Fairgrounds in Flagstaff, Arizona, on September 14, 2000.

* Fred Rosenstock, A Legend in Books & Art, Donald E. Bower, Foreword by Frank Waters, Northland Press, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1976, hardback, 212 pages.

By 1886, Flagstaff was the largest city on the railroad line between Albuquerque and the west coast of the United States.

In homage to the city's importance in the field of astronomy, asteroid 2118 Flagstaff is named for the city, and 6582 Flagsymphony for the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra.

By the 1890s, Flagstaff found itself located along one of the busiest railroad corridors in the U. S., with 80-100 trains travelling through the city every day, destined for Chicago, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.

Flagstaff was incorporated as a city in 1928, and in 1929, the city's first motel, the Motel Du Beau, was built at the intersection of Beaver Street and Phoenix Avenue.

In 1987, the city drafted a new master plan, also known as the Growth Management Guide 2000, which would transform downtown Flagstaff from a shopping and trade center into a regional center for finance, office use, and government.

Williams () is a city in Coconino County, Arizona, west of Flagstaff.

In the mid 1990s, the Del Webb Corporation proposed a residential development roughly as large as Flagstaff, Arizona's eleventh largest city ( 2000 census ).

It is the county seat of McKinley County and the most populous city between Flagstaff, Arizona and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

To the east of the city lies Flagstaff Point, a rocky headland with eroded low cliffs topped by a grassy hill.

The city hosts two music festivals, the Flagstaff Folk Festival and the Flagstaff Music Festival.

La Trobe's most lasting contribution to the city was to reserve large areas as public parks: today these are the Treasury Gardens, the Carlton Gardens, the Flagstaff Gardens, Royal Park and the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Flagstaff is the largest and main city of the Northern Arizona region.

They form part of a network of city gardens including Fitzroy Gardens, Carlton Gardens, Flagstaff Gardens and Kings Domain.

The Fitzroy Gardens have been viewed as the flagship of this group of city gardens, which includes the Flagstaff, Treasury, Carlton and Alexandra Gardens and the Kings Domain.

A rail line to the largest city in the area, Flagstaff, was completed in 1882 by the Santa Fe Railroad.

Flagstaff Pulliam Airport is a city owned, public use airport located four nautical miles ( 5 mi, 7 km ) south of the central business district of Flagstaff, a city in Coconino County, Arizona, United States.

* Interstate 40 uses Los Angeles as a control city for motorists west of Flagstaff, even though I-40 does not reach Los Angeles, and neither does Interstate 15, which is at its western terminus.

Burial Hill ( now Flagstaff railway station ) became its home ground in January 1839, however, the area was already set aside for Botanical Gardens and the club was moved on in October 1846, to an area on the south bank of the Yarra about where the Herald and Weekly Times building is today.

In 2001, he bought a $ 216, 000 home in Flagstaff, moving his voting registration there in December of that year.

Flagstaff is home to Northern Arizona University and the Lowell Observatory.

Peel Street and the Flagstaff Gardens help form the eastern boundary, with the western boundary defined by the Maribyrnong River and Coode Island, a locality of West Melbourne, which is home to Victoria's largest toxic chemical storage facility.

The Arboretum at Flagstaff is a arboretum that is home to 2, 500 species of mostly drought-tolerant adapted and native plants representative of the high-desert Colorado Plateau, home to the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park.

The northern most district, known as the Flagstaff District, is home to the San Francisco Peaks, an ancient group of volcanic summits.