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The community is bordered to the south by Interstate 40 and to the north by the Gallup Subdivision of the BNSF Railway. New Mexico State Road 118 (Historic Route 66) runs through the northern side of the community. It is 10 miles (16 km) west of Gallup, the county seat, and 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Lupton, Arizona.
McKinley County is a county in the northwestern section of the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 United States Census, its population was 72,902. [1] Its county seat is Gallup. [2] The county was created in 1901 and named for President William McKinley. [3] McKinley County is Gallup's micropolitan statistical area.
El Paso Natural Gas Company built a refinery [when?] at the Continental Divide in New Mexico around the area of 35.48698357712149, -108.4264608980443. [circular reference] The refinery was known locally as the Gallup Refinery or the Ciniza Refinery. By 1964, El Paso Gas sold the refinery to the Shell Oil Company. [5]
The community is in the western part of the county, bordered to the north by Williams Acres. Interstate 40 forms the northern border of the Crestview CDP, with the closest access one mile to the east at Exit 16 in Gallup. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2), all land. [1]
1864: Edward Canby ordered Colonel Kit Carson to bring four companies of the First New Mexico Volunteers to the fort to "control" the Navajo. 1864–1866: It was the staging point for the Navajo deportation known as the Long Walk of the Navajo. 1865: The New Mexico Military District had 3,089 troops, 135 of them at Fort Wingate.
Gallup, the McKinley county seat, is 23 miles (37 km) by road to the southeast. New Mexico State Road 264 passes through the community, leading east 16 miles (26 km) to U.S. Route 491 at Yah-ta-hey. To the west, the highway leads 1 mile (1.6 km) into Window Rock, Arizona.
The community is located in central McKinley County along Interstate 40, 25 miles (40 km) east-southeast of Gallup, at Campbell Pass, a low point along the Continental Divide of the Americas. The center of the community sits at an elevation of 7,228 feet (2,203 m), [ 5 ] just west of the height of land.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs operates a K-8 school, Chi Chil'tah Community School. [2] It was given internet access in 2001. That year it had 206 students. [3]Gallup-McKinley County Schools is the non-BIE school district. [4]