Tolchico, Arizona
Tolchico is located in Arizona
Tolchico
Tolchico
Location within the state of Arizona
Tolchico is located in the United States
Tolchico
Tolchico
Tolchico (the United States)
Coordinates: 35°23′36″N 111°06′29″W / 35.39333°N 111.10806°W / 35.39333; -111.10806
CountryUnited States
StateArizona
CountyCoconino
Elevation4,669 ft (1,423 m)
Time zoneUTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
  Summer (DST)UTC-7 (MST)
Area code928
FIPS code04-74155
GNIS feature ID24656

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]

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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