Iyanbito, NM

Iyanbito is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States, on the Navajo Nation. The 2020 census counted 1,193 residents. The community is in central McKinley County, 16 miles east of Gallup, the county seat. Iyanbito is bordered to the west by the Church Rock CDP and to the south by the Southern Transcon line of the BNSF Railway. Iyanbito is in Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools. Iyanbito is zoned to Catherine A. A newcomer can read Iyanbito through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Iyanbito comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Iyanbito includes the area drains to the South Fork of the Puerco River. The west-flowing Puerco River is part of the Little Colorado River.