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Clarkdale (Yavapai: Saupkasuiva [2]) is a town in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. The Verde River flows through the town as does Bitter Creek, an intermittent tributary of the river. According to the 2021 census, the population of the town was 4,419. [3] Clarkdale, formerly a mining town, is now largely a retirement community and arts ...
Clarkdale Historic District in Clarkdale, Arizona is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [ 1 ] Clarkdale was built as a company town for the United Verde Copper Company, owned by William A. Clark, which located a smelter in Clarkdale.
The canyon is one of several in Arizona that cut through the Mogollon Rim. [1] Relevant United States Geological Survey (USGS) map quadrangles are Davenport Hill, White Horse Lake, May Tank Pocket, Perkinsville, Sycamore Basin, and Clarkdale. [3] Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness borders Sycamore Canyon Wilderness on the east. [1]
Pecks Lake is a small reservoir, fed by water from the adjacent Verde River, near Clarkdale in the U.S. state of Arizona.The name of the nearby Tuzigoot National Monument comes from an Apache word, Tuzigoot, meaning crooked water. [3]
Another source attributes the name to William Mingus (d. 1911, Prescott, Arizona), a pioneer prospector who lived and worked on Mingus Mountain in the 1870s. [ 5 ] The Mingus Lookout Complex is a complex of fire tower and associated buildings at the top of the mountain, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Tuzigoot National Monument (Yavapai: ʼHaktlakva, Western Apache: Tú Digiz) preserves a 2- to 3-story pueblo ruin on the summit of a limestone and sandstone ridge just east of Clarkdale, Arizona, 120 feet (37 m) above the Verde River floodplain.
Sycamore Canyon is the second largest canyon in the Arizona redrock country, after Oak Creek Canyon. The 21-mile (34 km) long scenic canyon reaches a maximum width of about 7 miles (11 km). It is in North Central Arizona bordering and below the Mogollon Rim, and is located west and northwest of Sedona in Yavapai and Coconino counties.
It also has the largest storage capacity of the SRP lakes with the ability to store 1,653,043 acre-feet (2.039 km 3) of water when the conservation limit of Roosevelt Dam is reached. When the dam is in flood-control mode, the lake can store 2,910,200 acre⋅ft (3.590 km 3 ) of water; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] however, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...