Sedona was named after Sedona Arabella Miller Schnebly, the wife of Theodore Carlton Schnebly. The first Anglo settler, John J. Thompson, moved to Oak Creek Canyon in 1876. Sedona began to develop as a tourist destination, vacation-home and retirement center in the 1950s. In 1956, construction of the Chapel of the Holy Cross was completed.
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Sedona was named after Sedona Arabella Miller Schnebly, the wife of Theodore Carlton Schnebly, the city’s first postmaster. The first Anglo settler, John J. Thompson, moved to Oak Creek Canyon in 1876, an area well known for its peach and apple orchards. Sedona began to develop as a tourist destination, vacation-home and retirement center in the 1950s. In 1956, construction of the Chapel of the Holy Cross was completed. On June 18, 2006, a wildfire, reportedly started by campers, began about one mile north of Sedona. The Brins Fire covered 4,317 acres on Brins Mesa, Wilson Mountain and in Oak Creek canyon before the USDA Forest Service declared it 100 percent contained on June 28. On May 20, 2014, a wildfires started from an unknown cause began north of sedona at Slide Rock State Park. The Slide Fire spread across 21,227 acres in Oak creek Canyon over nine days and prompted evacuations.
State Route 89A opened to Flagstaff in June, but all parking and canyon access was closed to the public until Oct. 1, 2014. The city has a total area of 19. 2 square miles, of which 0. 04 square miles, or 0. 22%, is water. The red rocks were a fixture in major Hollywood productions as far back as 1923, including films such as Angel and the Badman, Desert Fury, Blood on the Moon, Johnny Guitar, The Last Wagon, and 3: 10 to Yuma. The town even lent its name to the 2011 film Sedona, which was based on a true story. The average high temperature in Sedona is 57 F° with a low of 31 °F. In the average July, high temperature is 97 °F. The Sedonaian Period, a member of the Supai Group, was deposited during the Permian Period. The Schnebly Hillbly Hill Formation is a thick layer of red to orange-colored sandstone found in the Sedona vicinity.
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