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The Northern Sinagua were living in the pine forests of northern Arizona before moving into the area that is now Flagstaff about 700 CE. [17] The 1064 and 1066 eruptions of Sunset Crater covered the area in ash, which greatly enriched the soil for farming; [ 15 ] [ 16 ] this also caused a population growth in the area, with Ancestral Puebloans ...
It has 18,661 sq mi (48,300 km 2), or 16.4% of Arizona's total area, and is larger than the nine smallest states in the U.S. Coconino County comprises the Flagstaff metropolitan statistical area, Grand Canyon National Park, the federally recognized Havasupai Nation, and parts of the federally recognized Navajo, Hualapai, and Hopi nations.
Area code 928 includes the remainder of the state, including Yuma, Kingman, Flagstaff, Prescott, the Arizona portion of the Navajo Nation, and Safford. 602 was the original area code for Arizona, and was split in 1995 into 602, serving metropolitan Phoenix, and 520, serving the remainder of the state. [1]
Map of the United States with Arizona highlighted. Arizona is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, Arizona is the 14th most populous state with 7,151,502 inhabitants (as of the 2020 census) [1] and the 6th largest by land area spanning 113,623.1 square miles (294,282 km 2). [2]
Four counties (Mohave, Pima, Yavapai and Yuma) were created in 1864 following the organization of the Arizona Territory in 1862. The now defunct Pah-Ute County was split from Mohave County in 1865, but merged back in 1871. All but La Paz County were created by the time Arizona was granted statehood in 1912.
Arizona is also one of the Four Corners states and is diagonally adjacent to Colorado. Arizona has a total area of 113,998 square miles (295,253 km 2), making it the sixth largest U.S. state. [1] Of this area, just 0.3% consists of water, which makes Arizona the state with the second lowest percentage of water area (New Mexico is the lowest at ...
The Coconino National Forest is a 1.856-million acre (751,000 ha) United States National Forest located in northern Arizona in the vicinity of Flagstaff, with elevations ranging from 2,600 feet to the highest point in Arizona at 12,633 feet (Humphrey's Peak).
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated two combined statistical areas, seven metropolitan statistical areas, and four micropolitan statistical areas in Arizona. [1] As of 2023, the most populous of these is the Phoenix-Mesa, AZ Combined Statistical Area , encompassing the area around Arizona's capital and largest city, Phoenix .