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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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1/2 North Street
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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

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