Originally Posted by loopywren
Hello from UK, I cannot believe Snowflake is really the name of a place. Especially in Arizona, however did that come about. What a lovely address to have.
The town was named after 2 families in the late 1800's; the Flakes who came to settle here and a man named Erastus Snow who came to dedicate the land for these Latter Day Saint settlers - thus the name Snowflake. We do get a little snow here as we are approx a mile above sea level on a desert plateau.