About Prescott, Arizona

Prescott is a city of 45,827 people and the county seat of Yavapai County, on high ground north of the Bradshaw Mountains, 5,400 feet above sea level. The Yavapai lived here first. In 1863 Joseph Walker's party struck gold on Hassayampa Creek, south of today's city, and that December the Army founded Fort Whipple at Del Rio Springs, near present-day Chino Valley. The next May the fort moved south to Granite Creek, where miners were camped in tents, and Governor John Noble Goodwin picked a site nearby for the territorial capital.

Settlers gathered on May 30, 1864, and chose to honor William H. Prescott, a historian admired by territorial secretary Richard McCormick. Robert W. Groom surveyed the townsite, an auction on June 4 sold the first 73 lots, and by July 4 buyers had taken 232. Prescott lost the capital to Tucson in 1867 and regained it in 1877. The town was incorporated in 1881, and on February 4, 1889, the capital went to Phoenix for good.

  • The Great Fire of 1900On July 14, 1900, fire burned five city blocks, including most of Whiskey Row, where more than 40 saloons had lined Montezuma Street. Customers dragged the Palace saloon's hand-carved Brunswick bar out of the flames and across the street. Built in New Jersey, the bar had been shipped around South America to San Francisco, then carried the rest of the way by pack mule. The Palace, opened in 1877, reopened in 1901, and downtown was rebuilt in brick.
  • A rodeo since 1888Prescott has held its rodeo every year since 1888 and calls it the World's Oldest Rodeo. The city says it was the first rodeo to charge admission, and it now draws some 35,000 visitors a year. In 1989 Governor Rose Mofford gave Prescott another title, Arizona's Christmas City.
  • A granite courthouseItalian stonemasons cut the granite for the Yavapai County Courthouse at the center of the plaza. Work started with the cornerstone in October 1916, and the building, designed by William N. Bowman in the Neoclassical Revival style, was finished in 1918.
  • A reservation in 1935The Yavapai had no reservation until 1935, when they received 75 acres that had once belonged to Fort Whipple. Viola Jimulla had worked alongside Sam, her husband, urging local and national officials to grant that land. After Sam's death in 1940 she led the Prescott Yavapai as chief, and the tribal council was formed under her leadership. Another 1,320 acres were added in 1956, and she served until her death in 1966.
  • A museum in the mansionSharlot Hall, a poet and historian, was the first woman to hold an office in Arizona's territorial government. In 1928 she opened a museum of her collection inside the cabin built in 1864 as the territory's Governor's Mansion. That building is on the National Register as the Old Governor's Mansion.

Find your street

Names on the Prescott map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Streets and roads42

  • W Oso Rd
  • Renegade Rd
  • W Bridle Ln
  • W Chipmunk Rd
  • Live Oak Dr
  • Granite Oaks Dr
  • W Oneal Rd
  • W Kelly Dr
  • Buchanan Dr
  • Starling St
  • S Clubhouse
  • Caldwell Cr
  • Currus Dr
  • Lear Ln
  • Side Rd
  • Shoshone Dr
  • Geneva Dr
  • Angus Dr
  • Rose Rd
  • Bailey Ave
  • N Granite Ave
  • Country Park Dr
  • Basin Rd
  • Dells Ranch Rd
  • E Granite Dells Rd
  • Iron Rock Pl
  • Commence Dr
  • Woodside Dr
  • Pine Lakes Dr
  • Vale Ln
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  • Quartz Way
  • Rockwood Dr
  • Oregon Ave
  • Middlebrook Rd
  • Lee Cir
  • Sundog Ranch Rd
  • Lee Blvd
  • Senator Hwy
  • Robin Dr
  • Old Black Canyon Hwy
  • E FS Rd 611
  • Galaxy Ln

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The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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