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Prescott is a city in central Arizona and the county seat of Yavapai County.

Governor John Noble Goodwin selected the townsite beside Granite Creek, residents named it for historian William H. Prescott at a public meeting on May 30, 1864, and the city was incorporated in 1881.

Prescott became the capital of Arizona Territory in 1864, succeeding Fort Whipple; the capital moved to Tucson in 1867, returned to Prescott in 1877, and moved to Phoenix for good in 1889.

Gold discoveries by the Walker Party at Lynx Creek and Hassayampa Creek in 1863 sparked the frontier mining boom that created the town.

The 2020 census counted 45,827 residents in Prescott; at the 2000 census, the city had 15,098 households with an average household size of 2.11.

Prescott sits at an elevation of 5,319 feet, and its motto is "Welcome to Everybody's Hometown."

Whiskey Row, the historic downtown saloon block in Prescott, includes The Palace, Arizona's oldest restaurant and bar.

Prescott hosts the World's Oldest Rodeo, held continuously since 1888 and drawing about 35,000 tourists a year.

The Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott preserves Arizona's first territorial Governor's Mansion, built in 1864.

The Granite Dells, an area of exposed bedrock just north of downtown, hold Watson Lake and Willow Lake and are crossed by the Peavine National Recreation Trail.