List of hillside letters in Arizona

This is a list of hillside letters (also known as mountain monograms) in the U.S. state of Arizona.[1][2][3] There are at least 58 hillside letters, acronyms, and messages in the state, possibly as many as 60. Arizona's most notable monograms are likely the pair of A's for Arizona State University and the University of Arizona that are a focus of their rivalry. Arizona also has a fictional monogram, the RS for Radiator Springs in the movie Cars.

Monogram	Town	Description	Location
A	Ajo		32.3654°N 112.8766°W
A	Tacna	Antelope Union High School	32.7012°N 114.0125°W
A	Tempe	Arizona State University, 1918 (N), 1925 (T), 1938 (A)	33.4279°N 111.936°W
A	Tucson	Constructed on Sentinel Peak by University of Arizona students in 1916.	32.2106°N 110.9917°W
AF	Ash Fork		35.2329°N 112.4773°W
B	Bagdad		34.5806°N 113.1802°W
B	Bisbee		31.4442°N 109.9107°W
B	Bouse		33.9418°N 113.9949°W
B	Sanders	Sanders Middle School Braves	35.2207°N 109.3283°W
CG	Casa Grande		32.8277°N 111.7211°W
C	Chloride		35.419°N 114.1885°W
C	Clarkdale		34.7831°N 112.0666°W
C	Clifton		33.0435°N 109.3001°W
C	Concho		34.4753°N 109.5956°W
C	Coolidge		33.0644°N 111.5146°W
C	Cottonwood		34.7307°N 112.0268°W
DILKON	Dilkon		35.3835°N 110.3234°W
DS	Dolan Springs		35.5843°N 114.2859°W
D	Douglas		31.3467°N 109.4777°W
D	Duncan		32.7252°N 109.1116°W
EF	Goodyear	Estrella Foothills High School	33.3370124°N 112.4082473°W
F	Florence		33.0545°N 111.4082°W
T	Fort Thomas		33.0702°N 109.9453°W
F	Fredonia		36.9781°N 112.525°W
G	Ganado		35.7137°N 109.5303°W
G	The Gap		36.3195°N 111.464°W
G	Globe		33.3944°N 110.7899°W
HALL	Springerville	Hall Trucking & Materials	34.1047°N 109.2408°W
H	Hayden	Hayden High School	32.9934°N 110.774°W
H (no longer exists)	Holbrook		34.9092°N 110.1726°W
J	Jerome		34.7487°N 112.1192°W
JC	Joseph City		34.9654°N 110.3179°W
K	Kayenta		36.7374°N 110.2613°W
K	Kingman		35.1961°N 114.0549°W
L	Laveen		33.3458°N 112.1652°W
M	Maricopa		33.1455°N 112.0192°W
M	Mayer		34.3979°N 112.2383°W (uncertain location)
M	Miami		33.397°N 110.8765°W
M	Morenci		33.0402°N 109.3211°W
P	Page		36.8815°N 111.4905°W
P	Parker		34.1234°N 114.2217°W
P	Prescott		34.541°N 112.429°W
<PHOENIX	Mesa		33.492°N 111.63°W
Q	Quartzsite		33.6523°N 114.2303°W
R	Kearny	Ray High School	33.0499°N 110.9314°W
RV	Eagar	Round Valley High School	34.1198°N 109.2803°W
S	Salome		33.7653°N 113.5574°W
SD	Seba Dalkai		35.4855°N 110.4538°W
S	Seligman		35.3683°N 112.8989°W
S (uncertain existence)	Show Low		34.2544°N 110.0288°W (uncertain location)
SJ	St. Johns		34.5082°N 109.2965°W
S	Phoenix	Sunnyslope High School	33.5739°N 112.0766°W
S	Superior		33.2818°N 111.0958°W
T	Tempe		33.407°N 111.9672°W
T	Phoenix	Thunderbird High School	33.6151°N 112.0965°W
T	Tombstone		31.7194°N 110.0737°W
TEEC NOS POS	Teec Nos Pos		36.9347°N 109.0911°W
V	Elfrida	Valley Union High School	31.6979°N 109.5714°W
W	Wickenburg		33.981°N 112.7192°W
W	Willcox		32.3465°N 109.8395°W
WR	Fort Defiance	Window Rock High School	35.7262°N 109.0743°W
W	Woodruff		34.7967°N 110.0421°W
Y	Yarnell		34.2218°N 112.7414°W

Tucson's "A" Mountain

The A on Tempe Butte for Arizona State University

References

1. Corning, Evelyn (2007). Hillside Letters A to Z : A Guide to Hometown Landmarks. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press Publishing Company.
2. Rocha, Guy (June 2004), "Hillside Letters: In Plain Sight But Not Intended for Planes", Sierra Sage, archived from the original on 2011-07-22, retrieved 2011-08-09
3. Parsons, James J. (1988). "Hillside Letters in the Western United States". Landscape. Sante Fe, N.M. 30 (1): 15–23. Retrieved 2011-08-09.

External links

• Mountain Monograms, a website explaining the origins and with an incomplete list and pictures
• Hillside Letters, a companion website to a book on the subject
• Letters on Hills, a category on waymarking.com for geocachers