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Chinle (Navajo: Chíńlį́) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The name in Navajo means ' flowing out ' and is a reference to the location where the water flows out of the Canyon de Chelly . [ 3 ]
Two lakes are found in Chinle Valley. Many Farms Lake is located on Sheep Dip Creek at Many Farms, Arizona, about 1.5-mi [4] from the Chinle Wash. Just northeast, and 3-mi southeast of Round Rock, Arizona is Round Rock Reservoir, located on Navajo Route 12, and between Lukachukai Creek (from the Lukachukai Mountains, 7-mi east), and Agua Sal Creek, from the northwest Chuska Mountains (the ...
[2]: 17 In 1898 the Franciscan order established a presence in Navajo territory with the establishment of a church and mission at St. Michaels, Arizona. The Chinle Mission was the first outreach mission, established from St. Michaels. After St. Michaels was established, it was decided that Chinle would be the location of the next mission.
Map of the San Juan Basin showing the Chinle Creek Chinle Creek is a tributary stream of the San Juan River in Apache County, Arizona and San Juan County, Utah . Its source is at 36°53′40″N 109°44′37″W / 36.89444°N 109.74361°W / 36.89444; -109.74361 , the confluence of Laguña Creek and the Chinle Wash arroyo
Round Rock is a mesa composed of cliff-forming Triassic Wingate Sandstone overlaying slope-forming Chinle Formation. [4] [5] Little Round Rock is a 6,113-foot-elevation (1,863-meter) butte less than two miles to the north. [6]
Tsaile is located approximately 29 miles (47 km) east of Chinle, just outside the boundaries of Canyon de Chelly National Monument. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 6.0 square miles (15.5 km 2), of which 5.9 square miles (15.4 km 2) is land and 0.039 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 0.88%, is water. [3]
The area is served by Chinle Unified School District #24, [6] which operates Chinle High School. In addition the Rough Rock Community School is a tribal school associated with the Bureau of Indian Education.
It was previously known as the Chinle Boarding School and was in Chinle until 1976, although its name did not immediately change. [12] By 2012 the name changed to its current one. [13] There was a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) school called Many Farms Boarding School. From circa 1975 to 1979 the school had 11 principals. In 1979 it had 500 ...