Navajo City is an
unincorporated community in
Rio Arriba County
Rio Arriba County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the population was 40,246. Its county seat is Tierra Amarilla. Its northern border is the Colorado state line.
Rio Arriba County comprises the Española, N ...
,
New Mexico, United States,
just north and east, of the
Navajo Nation in the northwestern part of the state.
Housing for workers was set up during the construction of Navajo Dam in the early 1960s at the junction of the Los Pinos and the San Juan Rivers. At the intersection of
U.S. Route 64 and
New Mexico State Road 539 the settlement is on the south side of Martinez Mesa to the south of the lake. Today there is little left and economic activity has shifted to the community of Navajo Dam, in San Juan County.
History
Navajo
The Navajo (; British English: Navaho; nv, Diné or ') are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.
With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members , the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United ...
s had settled in this area as early as 1630. The
Hubbell family had a trading post here between 1880 and 1882.
Notes
Unincorporated communities in New Mexico
Unincorporated communities in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
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