Oljato-Monument Valley (Arizona)
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 Location in County and Arizona
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| Basic data | |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Arizona |
| County : | Navajo County |
| Coordinates : | 36 ° 59 ′ N , 110 ° 11 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Mountain Standard Time ( UTC − 7 ) |
| Residents : | 155 (status: 2000) |
| Population density : | 4.8 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 32.4 km 2 (approx. 13 mi 2 ) of which 32.4 km 2 (approx. 13 mi 2 ) are land |
| Height : | 1475 m |
| FIPS : | 04-51142 |
| GNIS ID : | 2408987 |
Oljato-Monument Valley ( Navajo : Ooljééʼtó ) is a census-designated place with 32.4 km² in Navajo County in the US state of Arizona . In 2000, Oljato-Monument Valley had 155 inhabitants. There is no central settlement, only individual houses scattered throughout the Navajo Nation on the Utah border . Large parts of the local area belong to Monument Valley , which also includes Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah , across the state border . US Highway 163 runs through the area .
Demographics
At the time of the United States Census 2000, Oljato-Monument Valley was inhabited by 155 people. The population density was 4.8 people per km². There were 58 housing units at an average of 1.8 per km ². The population of Oljato-Monument Valley was 0.65% white , 94.19% Native American and 5.16% named two or more races.
The residents of Oljato-Monument Valley's were distributed across 37 households out of which 59.5% had children under the age of 18. 48.6% of households were married, 32.4% had a female head of household without a husband and 10.8% were not families. 23.8% of households were made up of individuals and someone lived in 2.7% of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 4.19 and the average family size 4.52.
The population was divided into 45.8% minors, 10.3% 18–24 year olds, 29.0% 25–44 year olds, 8.4% 45–64 year olds and 6.5% aged 65 and over or more. The median age was 21 years. For every 100 women there were 101.3 men. For every 100 women over the age of 18, there were 90.9 men.
The median household income in Oljato-Monuemt Valley was $ 6406, and the median family income reached the level of $ 12,813 . The per capita income in Oljato-Monument Valley was $ 4702. 53.8% of the population and 42.9% of families had an income below the poverty line , including 27.3% of minors and 52.9% of those aged 65 and over.
Education and infrastructure
Oljato-Monument Valley is in the Kayenta Unified School District . There is no central water supply, in 2001 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the evaluation of series of measurements from the 1990s: According to this, all of the drinking water sources examined in the area are radioactively contaminated, since the 1940s and 1950s a double-digit number of uranium mines has been used Exploration of the deposits were created. The deposits were not profitable and were abandoned without properly sealing the mines. There is a clean spring across the border in Utah and another one in the far south of the Oljato-Monuemt Valley is classified as less risk .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Environmental Protection Agency: Navajo Abandoned Uranium Mines Project - Oljato Chapter Map (PDF; 4.7 MB) in the Superfund program