Prescott, Arizona Prescott, Arizona Prescott, Arizona is positioned in the US Prescott, Arizona - Prescott, Arizona Prescott (/ pr sk t/ pres-k t; Yavapai: Wi:kwatha Ksik ita) is a town/city in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
According to the 2010 Census, the populace of the town/city is 39,843. The town/city is the governmental center of county of Yavapai County. In 1864 Prescott was designated as the capital of the Arizona Territory, replacing the temporary capital at Fort Whipple. The Territorial Capital was moved to Tucson in 1867.
Prescott again became the Territorial Capital in 1877, until Phoenix became the capital in 1889.
The suburbs of Prescott Valley, 7 miles (11 km) east; Chino Valley, 16 miles (26 km) north; Dewey-Humboldt, 13 miles (21 km) east, and Prescott, together comprise what is locally known as the "Quad-City" area.
Prescott is the center of the Prescott Metropolitan Area, defined by the U.S.
The Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe reservation is positioned adjoining to and partially inside the borders of Prescott.
First Prescott Courthouse, about 1885 Arizona Territorial Governor John Noble Goodwin chose the initial site of Prescott following his first tour of the new territory.
Downtown streets in Prescott are titled in honor of each of them.
Prescott amid a enhance meeting on May 30, 1864. Robert W.
By July 4, 1864, a total of 232 lots had been sold inside the new community. Prescott was officially incorporated in 1880. Prescott served as capital of Arizona Territory until November 1, 1867, when the capital was moved to Tucson by act of the 4th Arizona Territorial Legislature. The capital was returned to Prescott in 1877 by the 9th Arizona Territorial Legislature. The capital was finally moved to Phoenix on February 4, 1889, by the 15th Arizona Territorial Legislature. The Sharlot Hall Museum homes much of Prescott's territorial history, and the Smoki and Phippen exhibitions also maintain small-town collections.
Whiskey Row in downtown Prescott boasts many historic buildings, including The Palace, Arizona's earliest restaurant and bar is still the earliest frontier saloon in Arizona.
Prescott is home to the Arizona Pioneers' Home and Hospital for Disabled Miners.
Prescott also has a place in folklore with the fact that Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp's older brother, lived in Prescott in 1879 and told him of the boom town in Tombstone, Arizona.
After a several major fires in the early part of the century, downtown Prescott was rebuilt with brick.
Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican nominee for president, launched his presidential campaign from the steps of Prescott's Yavapai County Courthouse.
Nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, part of the Prescott Fire Department, lost their lives Sunday, June 30, 2013 while battling the Yarnell Hill fire that ignited two days earlier south of Prescott.
Thumb Butte and Granite Mountain in Prescott.
Prescott is 55 mi (89 km) west-northwest of the State of Arizona's geographic center.
Prescott is considered part of North Central Arizona.
This barns traveled from Prescott to Phoenix through the Granite Dells.
The Peavine trail joins to the Iron King Trail, which was the route of the old Prescott Railroad through the Granite Dells.
Goldwater Lake, by Goldwater Park, is positioned four miles from downtown Prescott and is some 15 acres of water surface, and is a prominent destination for park recreation and picnic facilities.
Lynx Lake is another lake close to Prescott in tall Ponderosa pines, and gets some 125,000 visitors every year.
None of these lakes permit swimming, however all are prominent recreational destinations near Prescott.
Prescott is positioned in the Bradshaw Mountains of central Arizona, at an altitude of 5,400 feet (1,600 m).
Climate data for Prescott, Arizona (1981 2010 normals) The Prescott Gateway Mall is an enclosed shopping mall that opened in 2002, replacing Frontier Village as Prescott's primary shopping center.
Downtown Prescott has dozens of autonomously owned and directed shops. Prescott has many Victorian style homes.
Prescott has 809 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places.
The tallest home in North America, Falcon Nest is positioned in Prescott, on the slope of Thumb Butte.
Prescott is home to the downtown historical region known as Whiskey Row, until 1956 a notorious red-light district.
There are four golf courses inside the town/city limits: Antelope Hills Golf Course, which consist of the City of Prescott South Course and the City of Prescott North Course, Capital Canyon Golf Club (formerly the Hassayampa Golf Club) (private), Talking Rock Golf Club (private), and Prescott Lakes Golf Club (private).
Prescott is home to The Arizona Pioneers' Home, a closing care retirement home, directed and funded by the State of Arizona, originally intended for impoverished Arizona framers from Territorial days.
While Prescott is known for its and cowboy feel, it is also the home of Prescott College, a small liberal arts college positioned just west of the downtown region that emphasizes surroundingal and civil justice.
In recent years Prescott College has fostered The Catalyst Infoshop (an Anarchist Free Space), Karma Farms (a improve garden program), a small-town farmers market, as well as many other establishments.
It is a non-profit organization which has an undergraduate body of roughly 800 students, and an average student to faculty ratio of 7:1 in on-campus classrooms. There are four general programs at Prescott College: the On-campus Undergraduate Program (RDP), Limited-Residency Undergraduate Degree Program (ADP), the Limited-Residency Master of Arts Program (MAP), and a Limited-Residency Ph - D program in Sustainability Education. Those enrolled in the Limited-Residency programs work with various mentors and Prescott College faculty, usually in their home communities.
On-campus students live in Prescott and attend classes at the college itself.
In recent years, Prescott has turn into a recovery destination for uncounted thousands.
Prescott is among the nation's top locations for recovery help and a momentous industry has grown up around the accomplishment to help folks make an addiction-free life for themselves.
Prescott is home to many recovery and rehab centers, a newly minted detoxification clinic and an amorphous improve of dozens of halfway homes and sober living homes.
There are more than 150 group homes providing housing for those in recovery programs. Current studies show Prescott as having 7.3 counselors per 10,000 citizens earning the unofficial title of Arizona's Recovery City. The cultures of Prescott's recovery improve and the improve of Prescott College and the intersections there-of have fostered a grow punk scene which hosts shows weekly at individual's homes, Gurley Street Coffee, and many other restaurants and bars throughout town.
Prescott has been home to a several nationally known punk bands, including Bueno, Life in Pictures, and Hour of the Wolf.
Local bands often play shows alongside touring bands, who include Prescott in their tours.
Prescott hosts annual affairs such as Frontier Days, The World's Oldest Rodeo (1888) (featured in the 1972 film Junior Bonner), Easter Egg-Stravaganza, the Bluegrass Festival, Earth Day, July 4 Celebration, Tsunami on the Square, art festivals, a Cinco de Mayo celebration, Navajo Rug Auction, Pumpkin Patch Carnival, World's Largest Gingerbread Village at the Prescott Resort & Conference center (located on the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe reservation), Prescott Film Festival, Folk Arts Fair, parades, the Acker Music Festival, The Cowboy Poets Gathering, the Prescott Highland Games, Courthouse Lighting, Whiskey Off Road and Ragnar Relay Del Sol.
On New Year's Eve, historic Whiskey Row saw the inaugural Prescott Boot Drop to usher in the 2012 New Year.
Also positioned in Prescott is the Heritage Park Zoo.
Prescott was the locale of Arizona's first Elks Lodge (BPOE).
In December 1895 a group of enterprising businessmen in Prescott, sturdy products of the early west, charted the initial petition for a dispensation and later established the Prescott Elks Lodge #330.
"Mother Lodge of Arizona" The Prescott Elks Opera House was assembled by the lodge in 1905.
The Prescott Elks Lodge now positioned in Prescott Valley and has served the improve for over 116 years.
A panorama of the Courthouse square in downtown Prescott.
Prescott was designated "Arizona's Christmas City" by Arizona Governor Rose Mofford in 1989.
The City of Prescott operates under a council-manager form of government.
The council has six council members and a Mayor, all propel at-large by the citizens of Prescott.
The council appoints a experienced town/city manager to oversee the daily administrative operations of town/city services and their respective departments, including the Prescott Fire Department.
Colleges in Prescott Prescott College Northern Arizona University and Old Dominion University have campuses in Prescott High Schools in Prescott Prescott High School Prescott Unified School District operates enhance schools.
In 2015 due to budget cuts the Prescott Unified School District closed Washington Elementary and Miller Valley Elementary schools.
Mile High Middle School serves 7th and 8th grades and Prescott High School remains unchanged. Prescott Transit Authority, a private company, operates Prescott Citibus, which provides small-town transit services. Prescott Transit Authority also operates intercity service to Phoenix. Other private companies furnish airport shuttles to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The three chief thoroughfares in and around Prescott are Arizona State Route 89 - A, Arizona State Route 69 and Arizona State Route 89.
State Route 89 - A joins Sedona and Cottonwood to Northern Prescott and meets with State Route 89 near the Airport eventually turning into Pioneer Parkway where it joins to Williamson Valley Road.
State Route 69 joins Prescott with Prescott Valley to the east, eventually curving southeast before reaching Interstate 17 at mile marker 262, about 65 miles (105 km) from downtown Phoenix.
State Route 89 travels mostly north south and joins Prescott with Chino Valley and Paulden to the north, closing northward until it joins Interstate 40 at mile marker 146, Ash Fork.
Main article: List of citizens from Prescott, Arizona 135 Years Ago Today a Capital is Born Named Prescott, by Earl Hoagberg, Sharlot Hall Archive & Library, May 1999.
Many Prescott places take their name from 1850s surveyor, By Harley G.
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A volunteer docent statement from the no-charge official downtown Prescott guided historical and architectural tour claims this is the origin of the phrase, "Where in the Sam Hill did you get that?".
This may not be accurate, since "Sam Hill" is also a euphemistic reference to Hell predating Prescott, being a polite way of saying "Where in the Hell did you get that?".
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