Area Information
Flagstaff is a city in the county of Coconino County in northern Arizona. The city is named after a ponderosa pine flagpole made by a scouting party from Boston (known as the "Second Boston Party") to celebrate the United States Centennial on July 4, 1876.
Flagstaff's early economy was based on the lumber, railroad, and ranching industries. Today, the city remains an important distribution hub for companies such as Nestlé Purina PetCare, and is home to Lowell Observatory, The U.S. Naval Observatory, the United States Geological Survey Flagstaff Station, and Northern Arizona University.
Flagstaff has a strong tourism sector, due to its proximity to Grand Canyon National Park, Oak Creek Canyon. In 1894, Massachusetts astronomer Percival Lowell hired A. E. Douglass to scout an ideal site for a new observatory. Douglass, impressed by Flagstaff's elevation, named it as an ideal location for the now famous Lowell Observatory, Meteor Crater, and historic Route 66.

Stone Water Tank
When Lowell Observatory was founded in 1894, the only way to get water up the hill was to haul it in 55 gallon drums using horse and wagon.  Around 1901-1902, the Observatory built the circular water tank that is still standing. Water was pumped up from Flagstaff, and the 12,000-gallon tank held the Observatory's water until 1964, when a new tank was built a few hundred yards north of here, near today's Pluto walk."
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