Yah-ta-hey, NM

Yah-ta-hey is a census-designated place in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. The 2020 census counted 757, residents. The English name for this place is an approximation of the Navajo greeting yáʼátʼééh, though the actual Navajo name means "just like a devil", the nickname for Anglo storekeeper J. B. Yah-ta-hey is in Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools. Zoned schools are: Chee Dodge Elementary School in Yah-ta-hey, Chief Manualito Middle School in Gallup, and Gallup High School. A newcomer can read Yah-ta-hey through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Yah-ta-hey comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Tanner. Yah-ta-hey is in western McKinley County, 8 miles north of Gallup, the county seat. The center of the community is along New Mexico State Road 264, just west of its eastern terminus at U.S. Route 491.