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 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 Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Ute Nation,and are mostly descendants of the historic Weeminuche Band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897. Their reservation is headquartered at Towaoc,Colorado on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation in southwestern Colorado,northwestern New Mexico and small sections of Utah.
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.
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.
Navajo State Park is a state park of Colorado,USA,on the north shore of Navajo Lake. Touted as Colorado's answer to Lake Powell,this reservoir on the San Juan River begins in Colorado's San Juan Mountains and extends 20 miles (32 km) into New Mexico. Its area is 15,000 acres (6,100 ha),and it has 150 miles (240 km) of shoreline in two states. Park activities include boating,houseboating,fishing,camping,and wildlife viewing. There is a New Mexico state park at the southern end of the lake.
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.
Bears Ears National Monument is a United States national monument located in San Juan County in southeastern Utah,established by President Barack Obama by presidential proclamation on December 28,2016. The monument protects 1,351,849 acres of public land surrounding the Bears Ears—a pair of buttes—and the Indian Creek corridor rock climbing area. The Native American names for the buttes have the same meaning in each of the languages represented in the region. The names are listed in the presidential proclamation as "Hoon’Naqvut,Shash Jáa [sic],KwiyaghatʉNükavachi/Kwiyagatu Nukavachi,Ansh An Lashokdiwe"—all four mean "Bears Ears".
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.
Water rights for the Navajo Nation have been a source of environmental conflict for decades,as Navajo lands have provided energy and water for residents of neighboring states while many of the Navajo do not have electricity or running water in their homes. Beginning in the 1960s,coal mining by Peabody coal at Black Mesa withdrew more than 3 million gallons of water/day from the Navajo aquifer,reducing the number of springs on the reservation. The Navajo Generating Station also consumed about 11 billion gallons of water per year to provide power for the Central Arizona Project that pumps water from Lake Havasu into Arizona.
