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Geographic Description of Legislative District 1

District 1 lies in north-central Arizona and encompasses the northeast half of Yavapai County and much of Coconino County south of the Grand Canyon that is not part of the Navajo Nation. It extends from the high desert scrub of the Coconino Plateau in the northwest to the dense conifer forests of the Mogollon Mesa in the southeast and from ...

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About Legislative District 1

Prescott is the population center of the district with 122,000 metro-area residents (including Chino Valley and Prescott Valley). The county seat of Yavapai County, Prescott was designated in 1863 as the original capital of the Arizona Territory in order to keep the seat of government far from Confederate sympathizers prevalent in the southern part of the state. The territorial capital ...

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