THE NAVAJO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Dinetah Tablelands setting.
Navajo County has 9,949.5 square miles of land in Arizona. 15 mapped landscape regions meet across Navajo County: Dinetah Tablelands, Northeast Arizona Shrub-Grasslands, Kaibito/Moenkopi Sandy Plateaus, among others.
Plains and mesa tops alternate with steep tableland edges in this transition between deserts, grasslands and forested mountains. Local relief changes sharply even within the broader plateau setting.
Regional context: Arizona/New Mexico Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Navajo County intersects 15 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Dinetah Tablelands20.6%
- Northeast Arizona Shrub-Grasslands20.4%
- Kaibito/Moenkopi Sandy Plateaus9.2%
- Semiarid Tablelands8.7%
- Montane Conifer Forests5.5%
Arizona/New Mexico Mountains in Navajo County
These southwestern mountain ranges rise above surrounding deserts and grasslands. Pinyon-juniper and oak woodlands give way to ponderosa pine, with colder forest types limited to the highest areas.
Read the regional source ↗Colorado Plateaus in Navajo County
Layered sedimentary rock forms mesas, benches, cliffs and deeply cut canyons. Pinyon-juniper woodland, oak and drier basin vegetation vary with elevation and the plateau's strongly contrasting terrain.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Navajo County
The atlas lists 49 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Navajo County, including Show Low, North Fork, Whitecone. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Navajo County by land and water
The Census records 9.31 square miles of water within Navajo County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Navajo County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Navajo County has 600.3 times the land area of nearby Dilkon CDP (16.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Apache County, Coconino County, Gila County, Graham County within Arizona. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

