Apache County is located in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2000 census its population was 69,423. The county seat is St. Johns.
Apache County contains parts of the Navajo Indian Reservation, the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, and Petrified Forest National Park. Canyon de Chelly National Monument is entirely within the county.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 11,218 square miles (29...
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Apache County is located in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2000 census its population was 69,423. The county seat is St. Johns.
Apache County contains parts of the Navajo Indian Reservation, the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, and Petrified Forest National Park. Canyon de Chelly National Monument is entirely within the county.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 11,218 square miles (29,056 km²), of which, 11,205 square miles (29,020 km²) of it is land and 14 square miles (35 km²) of it (0.12%) is water. The county is the sixth largest U.S. county in area (excluding boroughs census areas in Alaska), exceeded in size only by San Bernardino County, California (20,053 square miles), Coconino County, Arizona (18,617 square miles), the Nevada counties of Nye (18,147 square miles) and Elko (17,179 square miles), and Mohave County, Arizona (13,312 square miles).
A history of the area, written in 1896, records the following about...
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