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History · Chilchinbito

Half of Chilchinbito’s homes were built after 1994

Most of Chilchinbito was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1994. Below: maps from 1968 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Chilchinbito’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Chilchinbito are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Chilchinbito’s history is told.

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The story

How Chilchinbito came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Chilchinbito.

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On March 17, 2020, the first case of the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the Navajo Nation was identified to be a 46-year-old resident of Chilchinbeto by the Arizona Department of Health. The man tested positive for the disease in a hospital in Phoenix after being transferred from the Kayenta Health Center in Kayenta, Arizona. Two days later the Navajo Health Command Operations Center ordered Chilchinbeto to be quarantined and isolated.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Chilchinbito on the map, 1968 to 1984

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Chilchinbito. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Chilchinbito on the 1968 USGS mapChilchinbito on the 1984 USGS map1968Chilchinbito sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Chilchinbito.

People over time

Chilchinbito, census by census

020040060080020002020Peak: 769

Between 462 and 769 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Chilchinbito’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Chilchinbito

Nobody well known was born in Chilchinbito itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Rex Lee JimAmerican politician and writer · b. 1962
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Amanda BlackhorseAmerican social worker · b. 1982
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Naiomi GlassesDiné textile artist and skateboarder

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.