Black Canyon City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.

[3] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 20.0 square miles (52 km2), all land.

Black Canyon City is located in southern Yavapai County and is approximately 22 miles north of Phoenix.

Included in the southern part of Black Canyon City is the community of Rock Springs.

The area was first settled by people of Anglo-European origin in the 1870s, and the first post office was established as Cañon in May 1894, with postmaster Charles E. Goddard, and was discontinued in October 1899.

The walls of his ranch house, Swillings Cabin – the community's oldest building still stand.

[5][7] In 2004, residents proposed incorporating the area as a town and submitted sufficient signatures to hold an election.

Black Canyon City, in common with such other Yavapai county communities as Camp Verde, Cornville, Rimrock and Village of Oak Creek, has well water exceeding the current maximum limit of 10 ppb arsenic.

Two thirds of the Black Canyon City residents and most of the businesses are served by a water District.