Navajo, NM

Navajo is an unincorporated community and census-designated place on the Navajo Nation in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. The 2020 census counted 1,942 residents. The community is in northwestern McKinley County, on the east side of the valley of Black Creek. Its southwestern corner is bordered to the west by Apache County, Arizona. Navajo is in Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools. The Bureau of Indian Education operates Crystal Boarding School, a K-6 boarding school, in Crystal. A newcomer can read Navajo through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Navajo comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines.