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Snowflake
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town in Navajo County, Arizona, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Navajo
- Founded by
- Erastus Snow and William Jordan Flake
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Body
- Snowflake Town Council
- Mayor
- Byron Lewis
- Total
- 33.80 sq mi (87.54 km )
- Land
- 33.74 sq mi (87.39 km )
- Water
- 0.058 sq mi (0.15 km )
- Elevation
- 5,686 ft (1,733 m)
- Density
- 180.9/sq mi (69.85/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 (no DST / PDT )
- Zip codes
- 85937, 85942
- Fips code
- 04-67800
- Website
- snowflakeaz .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Snowflake (Navajo: Tó Diłhił Biih Yílį́) is a town in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. It was founded in 1878 by Erastus Snow and William Jordan Flake, Mormon pioneers. As of the 2020 census, Snowflake had a population of 6,104. Snowflake is 25 miles (40 km) south of Interstate 40 (formerly U.S. Route 66) via Highway 77. The Apache Railway provides freight service.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Snowflake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.