Tolchico, Arizona

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Tolchico, Arizona
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Tolchico
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Tolchico
Tolchico (the United States)
Coordinates: 35°23′36″N111°06′29″W / 35.39333°N 111.10806°W / 35.39333; -111.10806 Coordinates: 35°23′36″N111°06′29″W / 35.39333°N 111.10806°W / 35.39333; -111.10806
Country United States
State Arizona
County Coconino
Elevation
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4,669 ft (1,423 m)
Time zone UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-7 (MST)
Area code 928
FIPS code 04-74155
GNIS feature ID 24656

Tolchico, also known as Tolchaco or Tolchiko, is a populated place situated in Coconino County, Arizona, United States. [2] Tolchico is derived from tolchiko, which is the Navajo term for the Colorado River. The name became official as a result of a Board on Geographic Names decision in April 1915. It has an estimated elevation of 4,669 feet (1,423 m) above sea level. [1]

In the 1880s Hermann Woolf kept a trading post here, termed Tolchico, Navajo for "river ford". Consequently the ford here is referred to as Wolf Crossing. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Feature Detail Report for: Tolchico". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ "Tolchico (in Coconino County, AZ) Populated Place Profile". AZ Hometown Locator. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  3. ↑ Woodhouse, Samuel Washington; Woodhouse, S. W. (2007). From Texas to San Diego in 1851: The Overland Journal of Dr. S.W. Woodhouse, Surgeon-naturalist of the Sitgreaves Expedition. Texas Tech University Press. p. 263. ISBN   978-0-89672-597-3.
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