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Photograph of Navajo National Monument
Photograph by Jon Sullivan, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Navajo National Monument

Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Navajo National Monument is a national monument located within the northwest portion of the Navajo Nation territory in northern Arizona, which was established to preserve three well-preserved cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Puebloan people: Keet Seel, Betatakin, and Inscription House. The monument is high on the Shonto plateau, overlooking the Tsegi Canyon system, west of Kayenta, Arizona.”

Wikipedia article Navajo National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1909.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 30 mi. SW of Kayenta, Kayenta, 86054
  • When was it listed? October 1966
  • Category. district
  • When was it built? 1909
  • National Register reference number. 66000176 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 66000176 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Coconino CountyAll 140 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.