Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
58historic places
—earliest paper
1895formed
106,717pop. 2020
14cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 58 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 3 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Winslow, Holbrook, Snowflake.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Navajo County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
8,829
16,077
25,309
29,446
37,994
67,629
97,470
106,717
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.
Cemeteries & historical places
USGS GNIS
14 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Baca Cemetery
34.32226
-110.68651
Bush Flat Cemetery
33.81005
-109.91704
Chief Alchesay Baha Grave
33.92227
-109.93955
Desert View Cemetery
35.03315
-110.70792
Holbrook Cemetery
34.90963
-110.15744
Joseph City Cemetery
34.93972
-110.31253
Rainbow Lake Cemetery
34.15219
-109.98909
Reed Hatch Memorial Cemetery
34.46435
-110.09818
Sevenmile Cemetery
33.78227
-109.95676
Show Low Cemetery
34.25736
-110.03918
Shumway Cemetery
34.40774
-110.08286
Sunset Cemetery
35.04679
-110.65998
Whipple Memorial Park
35.02474
-110.67486
Whiteriver Cemetery
33.83306
-109.97463
Historical populated places — 4 of 4
Name
Lat
Lon
Brigham City
35.04169
-110.65069
Old Shongopavi
35.80445
-110.52041
Sunset City
35.04446
-110.65347
Sunset Crossing
35.01434
-110.65361
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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