Coconino County was carved from Yavapai County, one of the four original counties in Arizona. In 1887 William H. Ashurst of Flagstaff introduced a measure in the 14th Legislative Assembly to create a "Frisco County", but the measure was defeated. In the following year Frank Rogers took up the fight, and introduced the bill again in 1889. It passed through the House and the Council, but was vetoed by the governor. The House then passed over the veto, but the Senate failed to follow through. By 1891 the time was right for the creation of Coconino County and on February 19, 1891, it came into being. The name is that of the Coconino Indians, of whom today's Havasupai are descendants. Lt. Lorenzo Sitgreaves interpreted the name as Cojnino, a not very great departure from the name Cosninas, as noted by Fr. Francisco Garces in 1776. Actually, the word is the Hopi designation for Havasupai and Yavapai Indians.
Coconino encloses country of great contrast, including the magnificence of the Grand Canyon, the beautiful wooded San Fransico Peaks, and the escarpment of the Painted Desert. North of the Grand Canyon lies the area of Arizona referred to as the Arizona Strip, a large part of which also lies in Mohave County. The area is relatively virgin territory since it is not easiliy accessible. Coconino is largely an agricultural, lumbering, and livestock area. The County seat is Flagstaff."
Barnes, Will C.; Granger, Byrd (ed.) Arizona
Place Names University of Arizona Press. 1960.
P. 60
County Profile-Arizona Department of Commerce
http://www.commerce.state.az.us/pdf/county/Coconino.pdf
Local Government Website
http://co.coconino.az.us/
Arizonan.com-Coconino County
http://arizonan.com/CoconinoCounty/index.html
Coconino County History
http://www.rootsweb.com/~azcoconi/cocohist.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~azcoconi/cocolink.html
Big Park
Bitter Springs
Cameron
Camp Verde
Flagstaff-County Seat
Lake Powell
Page
Sedona
Williams
Flagstaff Public Library (District includes all libraries in
Coconino County)
http://www.flagstaffpubliclibrary.org/
Grand Canyon Pioneers Society
P.O. Box 2372
Flagstaff, Arizona 86003-2372
http://www.kaibab.org/gcps/gc_gcps.htm
Havasupai Tribal Arts Museum
P. O. Box 10
Supai, AZ 86435
Ph (928) 448-2731 or (928) 448-2611
John Wesley Powell Museum
6 North Lake Powell Blvd. (at N. Navajo Dr.)
P. O. Box 547
Page, AZ 86040
Ph (928) 645-9496
http://www.powellmuseum.org/
Sedona Historical Society
P. O. Box 4255
West Sedona, AZ 86340
Ph (928) 282-7038
http://www.sedonamuseum.org/
Arizona Historical Society- Northern Arizona Division (Pioneer Museum)
2340 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, Arizona
(520) 774-6272
http://www.infomagic.net/~ahsnad/index.html
Museum of Northern Arizona
3101 N. Fort Valley Rd., Flagstaff, AZ 86001
520-774-5213
Open daily 9 AM - 5 PM
http://www.musnaz.org/
Riordan Mansion State Historic Park
409 Riordan Rd FLAGSTAFF AZ
(520) 779-4395
Click
here for more information
Books/Manuscripts found in the ASU Library Catalog
Prehistory of the upper basin Coconino County, Arizona / Alan P. Sullivan,
III ; contributions by Owen K. Davis ... [et al.]
MUS
1.2:A 62/167 azdocs
A harsh land and proud : saga of the "Arizona Strip" / by Nellie I.
Cox.
F817
.M5 C69x 1982
Biography of a small mountain / Donna Ashworth.
F817.C6
A8x
