Yarnell Arizona Map

About Yarnell, Arizona

Yarnell is a locality in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. It is a small community with a population of 570. The population density is 24.9 people per km². Yarnell is located at 34.2282°N, 112.7631°W. It observes the Mountain Standard Time — no DST (America/Phoenix) timezone. ZIP code: 85362.

Yarnell occupies a high, arid spine of land where the air thins into a crystalline clarity that renders the horizon sharp enough to cut. It lies 27.1 miles southwest of Prescott, AZ (from Prescott, AZ: bearing 216°T), and is situated 17.5 miles north of Wickenburg. Miller Creek carves a shallow, intermittent path through the landscape, its bed often dry and silver-gray against the baked earth, waiting for the sudden, violent grace of monsoon rains to bring a brief, surging life to the basin. Antelope Peak rises a single mile away, a hulking sentinel of stone that casts long, violet shadows across the scrub and chaparral as the sun dips low. Immediately surrounding the dwellings, the State Trust Land stretches out in a vast, unmanicured expanse of desert flora, where the ocotillo reach upward like frantic, spindly fingers and the silence is so profound it seems to hum with the vibrations of the cooling rock.

Yarnell carries the weight of a history forged in the grit of gold mining and the slow, deliberate pace of high-desert survival. The local economy persists as a quiet mosaic of independent artisans and small-scale service providers who have learned to thrive in the lean, bright light of the plateau. Harper Canyon defines the topography of the immediate surroundings, acting as a natural catch-basin for the shifting winds that scour the slope and keep the nights bracingly cold even after the heat of the day has retreated into the granite. Life here moves in accordance with the seasonal shifts of the brush, where the culture is defined less by the noise of modern industry and more by the persistent, rugged independence of those who choose to live where the earth meets the open, cloud-streaked sky.

About This Yarnell Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Yarnell, Arizona. Coordinates: 34.228248, -112.763062. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Yarnell includes the ZIP code (85362), telephone area code (480), county seat of Yavapai County (Prescott), and school district assignment (Yarnell Elementary District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.