Humphreys Peak is the highest point in the U.S. state of Arizona (12,633 Ft.) and is located within Kachina Peaks Wilderness in Coconino County, about 11 miles north of Flagstaff, Arizona. Humphreys Peak was named in about 1870 for General Andrew A. Humphreys, a U.S. Army officer who was a Union general during the American Civil War, and who later became Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.