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At around 7,000 feet in elevation, located adjacent to the largest contiguous Ponderosa Pine forest in North America, the area around Flagstaff is considered a high altitude semi desert. However, ecosystems ranging from pinon-juniper studded plateaus, high desert, green alpine forest and barren tundra can all be found within a short drive of Flagstaff.
Flagstaff is a city located in northern Arizona, in the southwestern USA. The city is named after a Ponderosa Pine flagpole made by a scouting party from Boston (known as the Flagstaff Tea Party) to celebrate the United States Centennial on July 4, 1876. Flagstaff lies near the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau, along the western side of the largest contiguous Ponderosa Pine forest in the continental 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 around 12,633 feet, is located about 16 km north of Flagstaff in Kachina Peaks Wilderness.
n 1855, Lieutenant Edward Fitzgerald Beale surveyed a road from the Rio Grande in New Mexico to Fort Tejon in California, and camped near the current location of Flagstaff. The lieutenant had his men cut the limbs from a straight Ponderosa Pine tree in order to fly the United States flag.
The first permanent settlement was in 1876, when Thomas F. McMillan built a cabin at the base of Mars Hill on the west side of town. During the 1880s, Flagstaff began to grow, opening its first post office and attracting the railroad industry. The early economy was based on timber, sheep, and cattle. By 1886, Flagstaff was the largest city on the railroad line between Albuquerque and the west coast of the United States.
In
1894, Massachusetts astronomer Percival Lowell hired A. E. Douglass to scout an
ideal site for a new observatory. Douglass, impressed by Flagstaff's elevation,
named it as an ideal location for the now famous Lowell Observatory, saying: other
things being equal, the higher we can get the better. Two years later, the specially-designed
24-inch Clark telescope that Lowell had ordered was installed. In 1930, Pluto
was discovered using one of the observatory’s telescopes. During the Apollo
program in the 1960s, the Clark Telescope was used to map the moon for the lunar
expeditions, enabling the mission planners to choose a safe landing site for the
lunar modules. 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.
The Northern Arizona Normal School was established in 1899, renamed Northern Arizona University in 1966. Flagstaff's cultural history received a significant boost on April 11, 1899, when the Flagstaff Symphony made its concert debut at Babbitt's Opera House. The orchestra continues today as the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, with its primary venue at the Ardrey Auditorium on the campus of Northern Arizona University.
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Downtown
Flagstaff lies immediately to the east of Mars Hill, the location of Lowell Observatory.
Streets in the downtown area are laid out in a grid pattern, parallel to Route
66 and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Rail Line, running east-west through the
city. Milton Road branches off from Route 66 west of downtown, and travels south,
adjacent to the Northern Arizona University campus, to the junction of Interstate
17 and Interstate 40. Milton continues to the south, becoming State Route 89A,
and traveling through Oak Creek Canyon to Sedona. Traveling north from downtown,
Fort Valley Road connects with the Museum of Northern Arizona, Arizona Snowbowl,
and Grand Canyon National Park. Traveling east from downtown, Route 66 and the
railroad run in parallel toward East Flagstaff (and beyond), at the base of Mount
Elden. Much of Flagstaff's industry is located east of downtown, adjacent to the
railroad tracks, as well as in East Flagstaff.
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