San Juan County is a county in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States Census,the population was 14,518. Its county seat is Monticello,while its most populous city is Blanding. The Utah State Legislature named the county for the San Juan River,itself named by Spanish explorers.
Aneth is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Juan County,Utah,United States. The population was 598 at the 2000 census. The origin of the name Aneth is obscure.
Montezuma Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Juan County,Utah,United States. The population was 335 at the 2010 census,a decrease from the 2000 figure of 507.
The Navajo Nation,also known as Navajoland,is an Indian reservation of Navajo people in the United States. It occupies portions of northeastern Arizona,northwestern New Mexico,and southeastern Utah. The seat of government is located in Window Rock,Arizona.
The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The 1,450-mile-long (2,330 km) river,the 5th longest in the United States,drains an expansive,arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states. The name Colorado derives from the Spanish language for "colored reddish" due to its heavy silt load. Starting in the central Rocky Mountains of Colorado,it flows generally southwest across the Colorado Plateau and through the Grand Canyon before reaching Lake Mead on the Arizona–Nevada border,where it turns south toward the international border. After entering Mexico,the Colorado approaches the mostly dry Colorado River Delta at the tip of the Gulf of California between Baja California and Sonora.
Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States,located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona,near the city of Page. The 710-foot-high (220 m) dam was built by the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell,one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. with a capacity of more than 25 million acre-feet (31 km3). The dam is named for Glen Canyon,a series of deep sandstone gorges now flooded by the reservoir;Lake Powell is named for John Wesley Powell,who in 1869 led the first expedition to traverse the Colorado River's Grand Canyon by boat.
The San Juan River is a major tributary of the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States,providing the chief drainage for the Four Corners region of Colorado,New Mexico,Utah,and Arizona. Originating as snowmelt in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado,it flows 383 miles (616 km) through the deserts of northern New Mexico and southeastern Utah to join the Colorado River at Glen Canyon.
The Navajo Nation Council is the Legislative Branch of the Navajo Nation government. The council meets four times per year,with additional special sessions,at the Navajo Nation Council Chamber,which is in Window Rock,Arizona.
The Navajo or Diné are an Indigenous people of the Southwestern United States. Their traditional language is Dinébizaad,a Southern Athabascan language.
Navajo Dam is a dam on the San Juan River,a tributary of the Colorado River,in northwestern New Mexico in the United States. The 402-foot (123 m) high earthen dam is situated in the foothills of the San Juan Mountains about 44 miles (71 km) upstream and east of Farmington,New Mexico. It was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) in the 1960s to provide flood control,irrigation,domestic and industrial water supply,and storage for droughts. A small hydroelectric power plant was added in the 1980s.
XTO Energy Inc. is an American energy company and subsidiary of ExxonMobil principally operating in North America. Acquired by ExxonMobil in 2010 and based out of Spring,Texas,it is involved with the production,processing,transportation,and development of oil and natural gas resources. The company specializes in developing shale gas via unconventional means like hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.
Kenneth Maryboy is an American politician for San Juan County,Utah,and was Navajo Nation Council Delegate. Kenneth is a former San Juan County Commissioner. Maryboy was the third Democrat in a row to have been elected to the Commissioner District 3 position since its inception in 1984 that divided the county into three districts. Kenneth was replaced on the commission in 2015 by Rebecca M. Benally
Lawrence T. Morgan is the former Speaker of the Navajo Nation Tribal Council.
Davis Filfred is an American politician for the Navajo Nation Council Delegate in the Utah Navajo Section.
State Route 162 (SR-162) is a state highway located in San Juan County,Utah,United States. It begins at US-191 east of Bluff. It then follows the former alignment of SR-163 to Montezuma Creek. There,it intersects UT-262 at its southern terminus. Afterwards,it follows SR-262's former alignment past Aneth to the Colorado state line. Colorado State Highway 41 takes over in the Centennial State,ending at a junction with US-160 6 miles east of the Four Corners Monument.
The Trail of the Ancients is a collection of National Scenic Byways located in the U.S. Four Corners states of Utah,Colorado,New Mexico, and Arizona. These byways comprise:
The bill to amend the Act of March 1,1933,to transfer certain authority and resources to the Utah Dineh Corporation.,and for other purposes. This bill was introduced on the Senate floor by Rep. Robert Bennett (R-UT) on 21 September 2009. It was referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. On December 9,2009 Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held hearing 111-538. No further action was taken by the Committee.
The Utah Dineh Corporation is a nonprofit organization which was established in order to maintain the Utah Navajo Oil Reserve revenues in the Aneth Oil Field section of Utah. Much of this area is within the Utah Navajo side of San Juan County,Utah.
The San Juan–Chama Project is a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation interbasin water transfer project located in the states of New Mexico and Colorado in the United States. The project consists of a series of tunnels and diversions that take water from the drainage basin of the San Juan River –a tributary of the Colorado River –to supplement water resources in the Rio Grande watershed. The project furnishes water for irrigation and municipal water supply to cities along the Rio Grande including Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Nancy Cottrell Maryboy is a Cherokee and Navajo Indigenous science expert and educator. Maryboy is the president of the Indigenous Education Institute,an organization she founded in 1995 to apply traditional Indigenous knowledge to contemporary settings. Much of her work has focused on Indigenous astronomy and she has written several books on Navajo astronomy.
