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Sedona is a city in the northern Verde Valley of Arizona that straddles the county line, with most of the city in Yavapai County and the remainder in Coconino County.

Sedona was founded in 1902 and incorporated in 1988.

The city is named for Sedona Schnebly, whose husband, Theodore Carlton Schnebly, was its first postmaster when the post office was established in 1902 among just 55 residents.

The first settler in Oak Creek Canyon near Sedona was John J. Thompson, who arrived in 1876.

The 2020 census counted 9,684 residents in Sedona, down from 10,031 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 4,997 households and 6,671 housing units in Sedona, where the median age was 62.6 years and 43.7 percent of residents were 65 or older.

Sedona covers about 18.3 square miles at an elevation of about 4,360 feet and lies within the Coconino National Forest.

Sedona is famed for the pink and orange sandstone of the Schnebly Hill Formation, part of the Supai Group, whose named formations include Cathedral Rock, Bell Rock, Courthouse Butte, Capitol Butte, and Wilson Mountain.

The Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona, completed in 1956, rises 70 feet from a 1,000-foot red rock cliff.

Sedona hosted more than 60 Hollywood film productions from 1923 into the 1970s, including Johnny Guitar, Broken Arrow, and 3:10 to Yuma.