Canyon de Chelly National Monument

Built in 1931. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Canyon de Chelly National Monument was established on April 1, 1931, as a unit of the National Park Service. Located in northeastern Arizona, it is within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation and lies in the Four Corners region.”
Wikipedia article Canyon de Chelly National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Apache County · listed in 1970 · category: District · built in 1931.

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

The listing

Address. E side of Chinle, Chinle, 86556
When was it listed? August 1970
Category. district
Census division. Chinle
When was it built? 1931
National Register reference number. 70000066 - 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.

Fires near this property

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Canyon de Chelly National Monument between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6 acres in total. 13 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	13
Debris and open burning	10

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	DE CHELLY
4 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	E BLACK ROCK
3 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Canyon De Chelly National Monument	BLACK ROCK
3 August 2000	Natural	1.5 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	BLACKROCK
1 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	BLACK ROCK BUTTE
30 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	NW WHITE CLAY
28 July 1996	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	SBLKRCK
22 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	WBLACKROCK

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Canyon de Chelly National Monument: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Uranium Deposit	Uranium	Unknown

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this property

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chinle, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 10 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1997	Flash Flood	Chinle	$1,000	Several reports of flooding around the Chinle area. First reports were received northwest of Chinle near the community of Rough Rock where Reservation Route 59 was impassable due to floodwaters. The last reports were received near Chinle where Reservation Route 27 was also flooded over.
April 2023	Flood	Chinle	-	The Navajo Nation Emergency Manager reported flooding in Chinle on the Chinle Creek early on April 23. The flood warning was downgraded to an advisory on April 30. The emergency operations center was staffed until May 9th.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Chinle	-	A few people were evacuated from a home that flooded in eastern Chinle near Canyon de Chelly. The time was estimated from radar.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Chinle	-	Several videos of major flooding north of Chinle were posted on social media.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Chinle	-	Chinle Police received a report of water flowing across a road near Tselani and Cottonwood at 330 PM MST.
August 2015	Flash Flood	Chinle	-	A thunderstorm produce heavy rain and a flash flood in de Chelly Wash. There was one fatality when a truck overturned in the flooded wash around 700 PM MDT.
August 2015	Flash Flood	Chinle	-	The Nazlini Wash flooded low water crossings.
September 2015	Flash Flood	Chinle	-	The Chinle Police Department reported that Indian Route 27 was impassable due to flash flooding south of Chinle.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Chinle	-	Heavy rain over the Canyon De Chelly National Monument caused flash flooding in Pueblo Co Wash. The water was snapping trees along the banks of the wash.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Chinle	-	Businesses were flooded at the junction of Highway 191 and Hospital Drive. Flooding was also reported on Highway 191 at mile post 446.8.
August 2007	Flood	Chinle	-	Widespread flooding was reported in Chinle by Navajo County Sheriff's office. Flooding was also reported along Highway 59 near Rough Rock. Businesses and some homes along Highway 91 in Chinle were under up to two feet of water.
September 2002	Flash Flood	Chinle	-	The Chinle Police Department reported flooding along the Chinle Wash from the confluence of the Canyon de Chelly Wash northward to Rock Point. People were evacuated as flood waters threatened homes along the Chinle Wash. One mobile home was washed off its foundations. Additional flooding was reported over the bridge on Nazlini Creek near Chinle.
August 1999	Funnel Cloud	Chinle	-	Chinle Police Department officers reported a funnel cloud west of Highway 191.
July 2002	Hail	Chinle	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Apache County

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 record	The nomination case file for reference 70000066 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Apache County	All 24 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.