The city has an average elevation of 1,400 feet. The town was named, and the first house built, on July 4, 1879. The town itself was built on approximately twenty hills, divided by 19 canyons and ravines, has 238 avenues and streets, with about 54 miles of rock retaining walls. It is estimated that about 60,000 cubic yards of limestone have been utilized in the walls and building of the town. The bulk of the town was built in an eight to ten year period in the 1890s.

Current population - 2,278