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Apache County, Arizona

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

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37historic places

—earliest paper

1879formed

66,021pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 37 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 8 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Adamana, Springerville, Eagar.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Arizona is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Apache titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

13 of 37 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

37 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Allentown Bridge	Houck	Structure	1988
Alpine Elementary School	Alpine	Building	1997
Butterfly Lodge	Greer	Building	1992
Canyon de Chelly National Monument	Chinle	District	1970
Casa Malpais Site NHL	Springerville	Site	1966
Chinle Franciscan Mission Historic District	Chinle	District	2007
Colter Ranch Historic District	Eagar	District	1993
Eagar School	Eagar	Building	1993
Eagar Townsite Historic District	Eagar	District	1993
Flattop Site	Adamana	Site	1976
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site NHL	Ganado	District	1966
Isaacson Building	St. Johns	Building	1983
Kin Tiel	Chambers	Site	1978
Klagetoh (Leegito) Chapter House NHL	Klagetoh	Building
Klagetoh (Leegito) Chapter House NHL	Klagetoh	Building
Lake Mountain Lookout Complex	McNary	Structure	1988
Los Burros Ranger Station	McNary	Building	1986
Lower Zuni River Archeological District	St. John's	District	1994
Lyman Lake Rock Art Site	Saint Johns	Site	2003
Navajo Nation Council Chamber NHL	Window Rock	Building	2004
Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs Archeological District	Adamana	District	1976
PS Knoll Lookout Complex	Maverick	Structure	1988
Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District	Petrified Forest National Park	District	2005
Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District NHL	Petrified Forest National Park	District
Painted Desert Inn	Navajo	Building	1975
Painted Desert Inn NHL	Petrified Forest National Park	Building	1987
Petrified Forest National Park Route 66 Archaeological District	Petrified Forest National Park (PEFO)	District	2026
Puerco Ruin and Petroglyphs	Adamana	Site	1976
Querino Canyon Bridge	Houck	Structure	1988
Rattlesnake Point Pueblo	St. Johns	Site	2001
Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Ganado Mission NHL	Ganado	District	2009
Sanders Bridge	Sanders	Structure	1988
Sherwood Ranch Pueblo	Springerville	Site	2005
St. Michael's Mission	Window Rock	Building	1975
Thirty-Fifth Parallel Route	Holbrook	Site	1977
Twin Buttes Archeological District	Adamana	District	1976
Water Canyon Administrative Site	Springerville	Building	1993

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Apache was formed in 1879 (1879-02-14) from Yavapai.

APACHE created by Arizona Territory from YAVAPAI.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Apache County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,283	8,297	13,196	24,095	27,767	30,438	52,108	69,423	66,021

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site	Park unit	36.6 km
Petrified Forest National Park	Park unit	55.0 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

10 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bowman Memorial Park	35.41919	-109.10787
Butler Cemetery	34.05581	-109.24419
Chinle Cemetery	36.17131	-109.59676
Ganado Community Cemetery	35.69905	-109.54235
Ganado Mission Cemetery	35.70936	-109.54521
Maxwell Cemetery	33.96285	-109.20936
McCarrell Memorial Cemetery	35.15735	-109.4945
Rogers Cemetery	33.94327	-109.19858
Saint Johns Catholic Cemetery	34.51242	-109.32977
Vernon Cemetery	34.24227	-109.69982

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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