* Coconino County Community College, Flagstaff, Arizona

Category: Landforms of Coconino County, Arizona

It is the county seat of Coconino County.

Old Coconino County Courthouse from Birch Avenue, June 2005

The city built a new city hall, library, and the Coconino County Administrative Building in the downtown district, staking an investment by the local government for years to come.

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

* Coconino County, Arizona-( south )

* Coconino County, Arizona-( southwest )

Category: Buildings and structures in Coconino County, Arizona

The county is the sixth largest U. S. county in area ( excluding boroughs and census areas in Alaska ), exceeded in size only by San Bernardino County, California ( 20, 053 square miles ), Coconino County, Arizona ( 18, 617 square miles ), the Nevada counties of Nye ( 18, 147 square miles ) and Elko ( 17, 179 square miles ), and Mohave County, Arizona ( 13, 312 square miles ).

( Coconino County, Arizona and Navajo County, Arizona are a close second and third.

Coconino County is a county located in the north central part of the U. S. state of Arizona.

Coconino County contains Grand Canyon National Park, the Havasupai Nation, and parts of the Navajo Nation, Hualapai Nation, and Hopi Nation.

Coconino County was the setting for George Herriman's early-20th-century Krazy Kat comic strip.

They remained part of Yavapai, however, until 1891 when Coconino County was formed and its seat declared to be Flagstaff.

The highest natural point in Arizona, Humphreys Peak at 12, 637 feet ( 3, 852 m ), is located in Coconino County.

Coconino County has of federally designated Indian reservation, second only to Apache County, Arizona.

Map showing the borders for Municipal corporation | incorporated and unincorporated area | unincorporated areas in Coconino County.

Flagstaff in Coconino County is a major highway junction, with Interstate 40 extending to the east and the west ( connecting with Williams and Winslow, Arizona, for example ), and with Interstate 17 extending south from Flagstaff to Phoenix and Maricopa County.

Navajo County has of federally designated Indian reservation within its borders, the third most of any county in the United States ( neighboring Apache County and Coconino County are first and second ).

The Coconino National Forest encompasses a large portion of the volcanic field and so the forest landscape around Flagstaff is dotted with tree-covered cinder cones, lava flows, and underground lava tubes ( such as Lava River Cave ).

The Hopi Reservation, or simply Hopi, is a Native American reservation for the Hopi and Arizona Tewa people, surrounded entirely by the Navajo Nation, in Navajo and Coconino counties of Arizona, USA.

* Lowell Observatory, 1400 West Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, Coconino, AZ at the Historic American Buildings Survey ( HABS ), with additional material,,,,,

* Wupatki, Wupatki Ruin, U. S. Highway 89, Loop Road, Flagstaff vicinity, Coconino, AZ at the Historic American Buildings Survey ( HABS )

* Lee's Ferry, U. S. Route Alternate 89, Page vicinity, Coconino, AZ at the Historic American Buildings Survey ( HABS ), with additional documentation,,,, of subsidiary structures.

Great Blue Heron s at Tonys Tank ( near Mormon Lake ), Coconino National Forest.

* Coconino County profile at Arizona Department of Commerce

* Wupatki, Wukoki Ruin, U. S. Highway 89, Loop Road, Flagstaff vicinity, Coconino, AZ at HABS

* Wupatki, Citadel Ruin, U. S. Highway 89, Loop Road, Flagstaff vicinity, Coconino, AZ at HABS

* Wupatki, Ball Court, U. S. Highway 89, Loop Road, Flagstaff vicinity, Coconino, AZ at HABS

The town is the capital of the Havasupai Indian Reservation, at in Coconino County.

The summit can be most easily reached by hiking the long Humphreys Trail that begins at the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort in the Coconino National Forest.

Lechatelierite was formed during the impact of a meteorite into a layer of Coconino Sandstone at Meteor Crater in Arizona.

* Coconino National Forest photostream at Flickr

A bronze plaque memorializing the Vultees is located at the end of Coconino Forestry trail named in honor of Vultee Arch, a natural rock arch ( named for Jerry Vultee ) near the site of the plane crash.

The county's topography makes a dramatic transition from the lower Sonoran Desert to the south to the heights of the Coconino Plateau to the north, and the Mogollon Rim to the east.

He moved to Arizona Territory in 1883, and became Sheriff of Coconino County in 1891 and from 1894 to 1898, as well as the chairman of that county's Board of Supervisors from 1905 to 1907.

* Kanab Creek Wilderness ( Kaibab NF / BLM ) mostly in Coconino County, AZ

* Fossil Springs Wilderness ( Coconino NF ) mostly in Coconino County, AZ

* Munds Mountain Wilderness ( Coconino NF ) mostly in Coconino County, AZ

* Sycamore Canyon Wilderness ( Prescott NF / Coconino NF / Kaibab NF ) mostly in Coconino County, AZ