Ash Fork
History/ Websites/ Books/ Manuscripts
"Elevation 5,128 feet. Station and division point on A.T.&S.F. R.R. FOr many years stages for PRescott started from here. In January 1892 the PRescott-Phoenix branch began building south from Ash Fork. Named by F.W. Smith, General Supt. of old Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in 1882, becaue of ash trees on the town site. Post office established April 12, 1883 Henry W. Kline first Postmaster."

Barnes, Will C.; Granger, Byrd (ed.) Arizona Place Names University of Arizona Press. 1997. P. 30

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Websites

City Profile-Arizona Department of Commerce
http://www.commerce.state.az.us/pdf/commasst/comm/ashfork.pdf

Local Government Website
http://www.ashfork.com/

The Arizonan
http://www.arizonan.com/Ashfork/

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Books/Manuscripts

Never give a heifer a bum steer / by Marshall Trimble ; illustrations by Jack Graham (Ash Fork (Ariz.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.)
PS 3570. R5197 N48 1999

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Items found in the Arizona and Southwest Index

Ash Fork, Arizona: Flagstone Capital of the Country; 1989
CE EPH DTO-ASH FORK.1

Why You Should Stop at Ash-Fork, 1912
CE EPH DTO-ASHFORK

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