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6 unusual facts about Coconino County


Coconino Community College District

Coconino Community College District is a school district in Coconino County, Arizona, USA.

Dogpatch

Like the Coconino County depicted in George Herriman's Krazy Kat and the Okefenokee Swamp of Walt Kelly's Pogo, Dogpatch's (and Lower Slobbovia's) distinctive cartoon landscape became as identified with the strip as any of its characters.

Maine Consolidated Elementary School District

Maine Consolidated School District 10 is a school district in Coconino County, Arizona, USA.

Monardella arizonica

The species has been confirmed to have been native to northern Arizona since at least the Late Wisconsin late glacial period based upon pollen core analysis at the Waterman Mountains (Coconino County) - (not the Waterman Mountains of Pima County); dominant trees of Juniperus osteosperma and Pinus monophylla remain extant species to the present time in this predominantly Pinyon-juniper woodland.

Mount Aldaz

Not only does Aldaz have a mountain named in association with him, but he also has a main-belt minor planet named in his honor, 13004 Aldaz (provisional designation: 1982 RR), discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station in Coconino County, Arizona, on September 15, 1982.

Panthea apanthea

It is known only from three areas in the south-western United States, Coconino County and Apache County (White Mountains) in Arizona, and El Paso County in east-central Colorado.


Corn Creek Wash

Corn Creek Wash (also known as Corn Creek and Oraibi Wash) is a stream located in Coconino County, Arizona, southeast of the census-designated place of Leupp.


see also

Elk Ridge

Elk Ridge Ski Area, a ski area and resort in Coconino County, Arizona, USA

Schinia immaculata

It is endemic to the area surrounding the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon in Coconino County, Arizona.

Scutellosaurus

The type specimen of Scutellosaurus NMAP1.175 was recovered at the West Moenkopi Plateau locality in the Silty Facies Member of the Kayenta Formation, in Coconino County, Arizona.