Talk:Supai, Arizona

2005 & 2007 comments

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A note: Census 2000 says that nobody lives in Supai. This is not true, and has not been for hundreds of years. Thus, I have used demographics data from the 1990 decennial census for the demographics section. Node 02:48, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Tomomi Hanamure should be added to this page and information about her murder. 74.94.215.114 18:43, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Services

The article says: "All mail leaving Supai has a special postmark showing that it was sent out by mule train.". It would be real nice to see in the article a .jpg or other graphic showing a sample of that postmark. Toddcs (talk) 11:13, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

This website has an example, but so far we don't have a public domain image available on Wikipedia or Wikicommons.--Chimino (talk) 02:30, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

I have contributed a personal upload of a postmark for SupaiCoal town guy (talk) 02:57, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Why Phantom Ranch does *not* have mail delivery

I removed the reference to mail being carried by mules from Phantom Ranch. The cited reference makes no such claim. This is good, since it's not quite true.

Letters and postcards are carried from Phantom Ranch by mules, but they're technically not mail. By law, the U.S. Postal Service has a monopoly on mail service in the United States. At the Grand Canyon National Park's village, mail is only delivered to a post office on the canyon rim. From there, a park concessionaire (Xanterra) offers a free service to transport post cards and letters to and from Phantom Ranch; packages mailed to the rim's post office will NOT be carried down. Mules are used for this free service, but by law it's not mail delivery. There's no special postmark -- pictures you may have seen on the Internet (e.g., https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203270894388531&l=21e4fb5f65 ) appear to be postmarks, but the "Phantom Ranch" pieces are merely stamps that can be used by anyone. In the picture linked above, I used the stamp to put the items that say "Phantom Ranch". I could just as well have created my own stamp that said "King Larry's Ranch." oops - forgot to sign it! --Larry (talk) 00:37, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Most Isolated?

I don't know if Supai would qualify as the most isolated community in the lower 48. Holden Village located in north-central Washington State is more than 30 miles from the nearest public road, and has to generate its own electrical power etc... And, while it is technically a retreat center, it does have long term residents on staff, and also has a public 2 room schoolhouse that offers a full K-12 education.--Hjohnson42 (talk) 05:10, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Relevant schools in the 1950s

From "Christmas Vacation". The Supai Weekly News. Supai, Arizona. 1959-12-18. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.

It mentions:

• Phoenix Indian School
• Theodore Roosevelt School (Fort Apache, Arizona)
• Grand Canyon USD
• Peach Springs USD

WhisperToMe (talk) 02:10, 22 March 2023 (UTC)