White Cliffs, NM

White Cliffs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. The 2020 census counted 371 residents. The community is in the western part of the county, 5 miles northeast of Gallup, the county seat, and 4 miles west of Church Rock. The CDP takes its name from a set of 600-foot-high cliffs that rise 2 miles to the north. White Cliffs is in Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools. White Cliffs's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider New Mexico setting. The local scoop is how White Cliffs's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The community is bordered to the east by the Puerco River.