For those of you who don't know, Sedona is a small city (population about 11,000) in North Central Arizona's high desert country. Now, many of you might think that's too small a population to even call a city, but perhaps I digress. What I wanted to talk about today is actually counties. To be precise, the two counties that claim part of Sedona as theirs: Yavapai and Coconino.

OK, I can hear you now: "Yava-what?", "Coco-who?". Ya see, most people can't even remember the names of these counties, let alone pronounce them ('course it is an easy way to ferret out the natives and natives-in-training ;^). Unfortunately for poor little Sedona, humans having the limitations we do (compelled to sort things and try to separate them into tidy categories) she rarely fits into the little boxes on the 'standardized tests' that determine where you might look to find her in any given reference. In spite of the fact that more people from around the country and around the globe have heard of Sedona than have heard of either county (and mind you, they're both HUGE), in order to find her in many references you'd have to know what county she was in, first. I mean, thank goodness for the search engines!

In any case, now you know. If you want to look up information about Sedona just know you'll need to visit both Yavapai County's and Coconino County's pages to find her, or you'll miss a part of her quirky charm. And don't try to fit Sedona into the usual little boxes, 'cause she's busy coloring outside the lines!

Sedona Library, with statue of Sedona Schnebly, located in West Sedona, Yavapai County.

Uptown Sedona, Coconino County AZ, with its shops and galleries is what most tourists picture when they think of Sedona. Here you see the Oak Creek Marketplace and Cowboy Club, previously the site of the Oak Creek Tavern, birthplace of the Cowboy Artists of America.