Chinle Valley
| Chinle Valley | |
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Black Mesa west, and the mountain ranges to the east & southeast | |
  Chinle Valley Chinle Valley of Arizona and Utah | |
| Length | 65 mi (105 km) N-S |
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| Country | United States |
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| Region | Colorado Plateau |
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| Borders on | List
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Chinle Wash | |
| Lake | Many Farms Lake |
Chinle Valley is a 65-mile (105 km) long
Chinle Valley is defined by the course of Chinle Wash, with the region as part of the high elevation
Chinle Valley is one of the locations for the Chinle Formation, (no type locality), of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and west Texas.
Monument Valley, of Arizona and Utah, is at the northwest border of Chinle Valley.
Description
Chinle Valley is mostly a north-south trending valley, about 65-mi long.
The low point of the valley is in the north, where Chinle Creek continues north to meet the San Juan River in Utah, about 16-mi[3] distant from Mexican Water, Arizona.
Creeks & lakes
Two lakes are found in Chinle Valley. Many Farms Lake is located on Sheep Dip Creek at Many Farms, Arizona, about 1.5-mi[4] from the Chinle Wash. Just northeast, and 3-mi southeast of Round Rock, Arizona is Round Rock Reservoir, located on Navajo Route 12, and between Lukachukai Creek (from the Lukachukai Mountains, 7-mi east), and Agua Sal Creek, from the northwest Chuska Mountains (the small Tunitcha Mountains area).
Access
The main access route through Chinle Valley is the north-south traversing of U.S. Route 191 (US 191).
For Arizona,
Round Rock, Arizona is just north on US 191, but easterly on a site neighboring Lukachukai Creek, (and east of Agua Sal Creek), both southeast tributaries to Chinle Wash. Continuing north, Rock Point, Arizona (just northeast of Plane Rock, 5,621 feet (1,713 m)), is near the Chinle Valley center, and on Chinle Wash; three routes converge in the Rock Point region, Navajo Route 35 (and Route 5040) are east, Navajo Route 8070 comes from the southwest, from the region of Trading Post Wash, and the north of Carson Mesa, (a section of the southwest of Chinle Valley), and Navajo Route 18, from US 160 to the northwest.
The north terminus region of Chinle Valley is the site of Mexican Water, Arizona; it lies between US 191 on the Utah–Arizona state line, and US 160 adjacent south. US 160 traverses east-west through the north terminus region of Chinle Valley. In the west, the route turns southwesterly and follows Laguna Creek which parallels a due-southwest trending section of Comb Ridge, of both northeast Arizona and southeast Utah.
In Utah, US 191 leaves the north terminus area of Chinle Valley (Mexican Water region), and follows the
References
- Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas, Benchmark Maps, 2nd Edition, c. 1998, 112 pages.
- Utah DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, 7th Edition, c. 2010, 54 pages.
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