Map of St. Michaels CDP, Arizona

St. Michaels (Navajo: Tsʼíhootso) is a chapter of the Navajo Nation and a census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The Navajo Nation Government Campus is located within the chapter at Window Rock.

The population was 1,443 at the 2010 census.

St. Michaels CDP overview:
Name:	St. Michaels CDP
LSAD Code:	57
LSAD Description:	CDP (suffix)
State:	Arizona
County:	Apache County
Elevation:	6,740 ft (2,054 m)
Total Area:	3.82 sq mi (9.89 km²)
Land Area:	3.82 sq mi (9.89 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	1,384
Population Density:	362.40/sq mi (139.92/km²)
ZIP code:	86511
FIPS code:	0462420
GNISfeature ID:	10723

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History

The St. Michaels area is referred to as Ts’ithootso in the Navajo language and translates to “area that extends out in yellow and green.” The microclimate was originally referred to by its Spanish translation Ciénega Amarilla (Spanish: “yellow meadow”) describing the late summer yellow flowers and grass. The area was first noted by the U.S. military in 1850 when Lt. James Harvey Simpson named it Sieneguilla de Maria, its Spanish name misheard by a non-native speaker.

In the 1850s a planned ambush against local Navajos was thwarted by a man who went on to become a signatory to the Navajo Treaty of 1868. Delgadito (Chách’oshnééz ((“Tall Syphilis”)) successfully alerted Navajos preparing for a prisoner exchange with Mexican slave-holders.

Saint Michael Convent

Construction on the Franciscan Mission began in 1896 using financing from Rev. Mother Katharine Drexel, founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Rev. Anselm Weber took over construction on October 11, 1897, adopting the name Saint Michaels for the area (from Navajo Tsʼíhootso: “Green Meadow”). St. Michael Parish would be officially founded in 1898.

In 1910, Fr. Berard Haile prepared a Navajo ethnologic dictionary at the Franciscan Mission.

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Geography

St. Michaels is located at 35°39′45″N 109°5′42″W / 35.66250°N 109.09500°W / 35.66250; -109.09500 (35.662418, -109.094957) on the eastern boundary of the Defiance Plateau. The community is located on the western side of the Black Creek Valley and Black Creek, a north tributary to the southwest-flowing Rio Puerco.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.8 square miles (9.9 km), all land.