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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.
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 Airstrip covers an area of 104 acres (42 ha) at an elevation of 5,272 feet (1,607 m) above mean sea level.It has one runway designated 2/20 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,214 by 75 feet (1,475 x 23 m).
The lowest point in the Navajo Section is about 4,700 feet (1,400 m), near the Four Corners area. The boundary between this section and the Canyon Lands Section is nearby, in the San Juan River basin. The highest point of the Navajo Section is 9,916 feet (3,022 m) at Chromo Mountain on the Continental Divide near Chama, New Mexico. [2]
As of the 2020 census, the population was 121,661 [1] making it the fifth-most populous county in New Mexico. Its county seat is Aztec. [2] The county was created in 1887. [3] San Juan County is part of the Farmington, New Mexico, Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is in the state's northwest corner and includes the New Mexico portion of the ...
In New Mexico, US 666 absorbed a portion of State Road 32 (NM 32) from Gallup to Shiprock, and completely replaced NM 121 from Shiprock to the Colorado state line. [19] The portion in Colorado was numbered State Highway 106 (SH 106) from the New Mexico state line to Cortez, and SH 10 from Cortez to Utah.
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.
New Mexico's other major center of population is in south-central area around Las Cruces, its second-largest city and the largest city in the southern region of the state. The Las Cruces metropolitan area includes roughly 214,000 residents, but with neighboring El Paso, Texas forms a combined statistical area numbering over 1 million.