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Shiprock (Navajo: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" or "winged rock" [4]) is a monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet (482 m) above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Its peak elevation is 7,177 feet (2,188 m) above sea level. It is 10.75 miles (17.30 km) southwest of the town of Shiprock ...
35–72770. GNIS feature ID. 2408729 [2] Shiprock (Navajo: Naatʼáanii Nééz) is an unincorporated community on the Navajo reservation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 7,718 people in the 2020 census. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Shiprock as a census-designated place (CDP).
Shiprock Original - Shiprock, a rock formation nearly 1,800 feet (550 m) tall in northwestern New Mexico. Reason Encyclopedic, attractive, some positive feedback on PPR Articles this image appears in Shiprock, U.S. Route 491 Creator bowiesnodgrass (Flickr) Support as nominator--Spikebrennan 20:19, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Bennett Peak is a 6,471-foot (1,972-meter) elevation summit located on Navajo Nation land in San Juan County of northwest New Mexico, United States. [3] It is a landmark set one mile west of U.S. Route 491, along with Ford Butte on the opposite side of the highway. Bennett Peak is one of the major diatremes of the Four Corners area, and with ...
Shiprock High School. "Once a Chieftain, Always a Chieftain!" Shiprock High School is a public high school in Shiprock, New Mexico (USA). Shiprock High is part of the Central Consolidated School District along with Kirtland Central High School and Newcomb High School. The school colors are crimson, silver, and turquoise, and the school mascot ...
Dike (geology) A magmatic dike (vertical) cross-cutting horizontal layers of sedimentary rock, in Makhtesh Ramon, Israel. In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body. Dikes can be either magmatic or sedimentary in origin. Magmatic dikes form when magma flows into a crack then solidifies ...
The San Juan River Bridge at Shiprock, about .5 miles (0.80 km) southwest of Shiprock, New Mexico, is a Parker through truss bridge built in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [1] It is a six-span Parker through truss steel bridge fabricated by W.E. Bondurant.
Shiprock (Navajo: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" ), located in traditional Dinétah territory (northwestern New Mexico). Dinétah is the traditional homeland of the Diné or Navajo, an Indigenous people of the Southwestern United States .