Entry Points:

Snowflake Main Street

Snowflake Temple

About Snowflake

Snowflake is located in a valley on Silver Creek in the hilly highlands of eastern Arizona. Irrigated farmland, dotted with trees fills the bottoms along the creek on the east side of town while a desert scene of shrubs and grasses covers the hills to the west. Other than a gentle rise along the edges of the valley, and a few sudden pointy hills, the surrounding terrain is quite flat.

Snowflake was settle on July 21, 1878 by William J. Flake and his family, who purchased a ranch on Silver Creek. They were soon joined by other Mormon settlers who (like the Flakes) had failed to establish settlements along the Little Colorado River. A visiting authority of the LDS Church named Erastus Snow suggested the name Snow-Flake.

In 2002 the LDS Church built a beautiful temple about a mile west of town on a prominent hill that had been called Pin Head Hill, which now goes by the name Temple Hill. This has precipitated a growth of the town in that direction.

Snowflake has a twin city, Taylor bordering it on the south, and the two towns have grown together. Other than that, it is a number of miles in any direction to any town of consequence, leaving it fairly isolated in the Arizona deserts. State Highway 77 connects the city to Holbrook on the north and Show Low to the south. State Highway 277 heads westward and the Concho Highway leads to Concho, a dwindling community to the east.

The elevation at Snowflake ranges from 5,580 long the creek, to 5,790 at Temple Hill. The population as of 2007 was estimated to be 5,343. The Mogollon Rim passes by several miles to the south, and the White Mountains lie to the southeast.

For More Information:
See the Wikipedia article on Snowflake, and the city's official site. The book Mormon Settlement in Arizona by James McClintock contains information on the settlement of Snowflake in Chapter 15.

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Street Index

1/2 North Street a street Brewer Street Brimhall Street Canyon Drive Cedar Crest Cedar Drive Centennial Boulevard Center Street Concho Highway Cottonwood Wash Eighth South Street Fifth South Street Fifth West Street First East Street First North Street First South Street First West Street

Fourth North Street Fourth South Street Fourth West Street Frontier Parkway Heritage Street Hillcrest Drive Kells Boulevard Lariat Lane Lewis Lane Main Street Meadow Lark Drive Ninth South Street Old Woodruff Road Owens Street Park Lane Pioneer Road Prairie Road Remmington Street

Ridge Road Rogers Street Sandtrap Lane Scooper Lane Second East Street Second North Street Second South Street Second West Street Sixth South Street Snowflake Boulevard Temple Circle Temple Drive Third South Street Third West Street Tumbleweed Trail Vista Street Western Dove Drive Winchester Street