Prescott City Statistics
Population
43,011 in the city of Prescott
103,260 in the Quad-City area
Residents
91.7 percent are white
6.4 percent are Latino
Number of buildings on the National Register of Historic Places
809
Elevation
5,200 feet
Temperature
Average summer high—86.2 F
Average summer low—54.2 F
Average winter high—53.7 F
Average winter low—25.5 F
Average annual rainfall
19.2 inches
Average winter snowfall
22 inches
Average number of sunny days
185
Size of Prescott National Forest
1.25 million acres
Number of biomes within 10 miles of the center of Prescott
6 — Riparian, desert grassland, chaparral, piñon pine/juniper, ponderosa forest, mixed conifer/aspen forest
Number of lakes within 10 miles of Prescott
5 — Watson, Willow, Goldwater, Lynx and Granite Basin lakes.
Number of named creeks running through Prescott
9 (the highest number of any town in the state) — Granite, N. Fork of Granite, Willow, Spence, Miller, Butte, Banning, Aspen, & Manzanita creeks
Highlights
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Colin Khoury
After finishing his B.A. at Prescott College, Colin worked as a Crop Curator at Native Seeds/SEARCH in Tucson, and Patagonia, Arizona, and as ... Learn more >
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Jessica Williams
Jessica Williams ’08 of Tucson was awarded a Campus Ecology Fellowship by the National Wildlife Federation to support work on college ... Learn more >
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Michael Shay '07
It’s a bakery-hot Prescott summer evening, but the Raven Café is packed with folks who don’t seem to mind the heat for a second. The Just ... Learn more >
