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Cornfields, Arizona

CDP in Apache County, Arizona

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Cornfields is a chapter of the Navajo Nation and a census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The population was 255 at the 2010 census.

Cornfields is part of the Fort Defiance Agency, of the Bureau of Indian Affairs; Ganado, AZ is the delegate seat for the district that encompasses the Jeddito, Cornfields, Ganado, Kinlichee, Steamboat communities at the Navajo Nation Council.

01Geography

Cornfields is located about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Burnside.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.39 square miles (1.0 km2), all land. Cornfields is part of the greater Ganado area which includes Ganado, Burnside, Cornfields, Kinlichee, Wood Springs, Klagetoh, and Steamboat and the family ranches dispersed amongst these sub-areas.

A Navajo woman shows the long, dense wool of a Navajo-Churro ewe to a Navajo girl.
A Navajo woman shows the long, dense wool of a Navajo-Churro ewe to a Navajo girl.

02Education

It is in the Ganado Unified School District, which operates Ganado High School.

03Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note
2020221,
U.S. Decennial Census
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