Apache County, Arizona
Apache County · St. Johns is the seat · Window Rock is the Navajo Nation capital · Phoenix is the capital of Arizona
St. Johns is the hall. Window Rock is the Nation's capital — not this county hall.
Apache County, Arizona, was erected 24 February 1879 and named for the Apache people. St. Johns is the seat. It is a small city on the Little Colorado high plateau. It is not the capital of Arizona. Phoenix is. Window Rock is the capital of the Navajo Nation. Window Rock sits in this county. It is not the county hall. Chinle is a census-designated place — not the shire. Fort Defiance is a place — not the hall. Eagar is the large town of this county — it is not the hall. Springerville and Alpine are towns and places in this county — they are not the hall. Apache Junction is in Pinal County. This is not an Apache County in New Mexico. There is no New Mexico hall by that name. This Sheriff is the county officer. This Sheriff is not Navajo Nation Department of Public Safety. This Sheriff is not White Mountain Apache police.
Places include St. Johns, Eagar, Springerville, Chinle, Window Rock, Fort Defiance, Ganado, Concho, Sanders, Alpine, and Many Farms. 2020 census: 66,021. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — remainder patrol and the jail at 370 South Washington this badge still holds — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Apache County.
Three supervisors meet at 75 West Cleveland. They fund. They do not hire the Sheriff.
Apache is a three-member Board of Supervisors, one supervisor per district. The board chooses a Chair. A County Manager-Clerk sits with the board. Meetings list at the Apache County Annex, 75 West Cleveland Street, St. Johns, AZ 85936. They fund roads, the jail district, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. St. Johns Town Council is a city body. The Navajo Nation Council is a Nation body. The Arizona Legislature sits in Phoenix. None of those is this Board.
The Apache County Superior Court is at 70 West 3rd South, St. Johns, AZ 85936. Justice courts also sit in St. Johns and in Chinle. Confirm at apachecountyaz.gov and the Arizona Judicial Branch. Holbrook is Navajo County. Clifton is Greenlee. Safford is Graham.
The Sheriff is four years, Arizona Constitution Article XII, § 3, on the presidential table. Last regular Tuesday, 5 November 2024. Next regular Tuesday, 7 November 2028. Take office 1 January 2029. 2026 is the Governor. That is a different desk in Phoenix. The Mayor of St. Johns is a city clock.
Most of this map is Navajo Nation. This county government is still the county.
A long north–south rectangle. Interstate 40 crosses the middle at Sanders. U.S. 191 is the spine. U.S. 60 and U.S. 180 serve Round Valley. Navajo County is west — Holbrook is that hall. Greenlee and Graham are south. Catron County and San Juan County, New Mexico, are east. San Juan County, Utah, and Montezuma County, Colorado, are north. Most of the land is Navajo Nation. Southern Apache County also includes part of the Fort Apache / White Mountain Apache reservation. This county government is not the Nation. This county government is not the Tribe. Staff who paste Window Rock onto Cleveland Street, or treat St. Johns as a New Mexico hall, or file Apache Junction as this seat, are on the wrong county.
How a public finds Cleveland, 3rd South, and Washington
Board of Supervisors / County Manager (Annex): 75 West Cleveland Street. Superior Court / Clerk: 70 West 3rd South. Sheriff’s Office and Jail: 370 South Washington, St. Johns, AZ 85936 — phone (928) 337-4321. Mailing lists P.O. Box 518. Confirm live doors at apachecountyaz.gov and the Sheriff page before you drive. A student who only knows a Window Rock photograph, or an Apache Junction Superstition postcard, has not found this campus.
Eagar is larger. Chinle is not the shire. Apache Junction is Pinal.
Crime in unincorporated Apache — Concho, Sanders, Alpine country, the remainder around Chinle and Ganado that is county and not Nation police — is this Sheriff. Crime in St. Johns is often St. Johns Police. Crime in Eagar or Springerville is often those municipal departments. Crime on Navajo Nation land is often Navajo Nation DPS and federal partners. This Sheriff is not those badges. The county’s own Sheriff page says this office houses prisoners from the county courts and from incorporated city police, and that the Apache County jail is at 370 South Washington. That house is this badge’s shop. ADC (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry) is the state prison system. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Window Rock, to a Pinal County jail, or to Phoenix.
Civil process and court security at 70 West 3rd South are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at a chapter-house parking lot. Remedy for St. Johns Police is the Town. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when I-40 ices at Sanders is this count first.
What the northeast rectangle actually watches
Court calendars at 70 West 3rd South. A wreck on I-40. Snow on U.S. 191 toward Chinle. A night road outside Concho. Coordination with St. Johns Police, Eagar, Springerville, Navajo Nation DPS, White Mountain Apache police, and DPS without becoming those departments. Coordination with Navajo County’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger, and not a reason to file Holbrook as this hall. A Window Rock photograph does not steal the seat. Phoenix remains the capital.
St. Johns snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: St. Johns · Large town (not the hall): Eagar · Nation capital in this county (not this hall): Window Rock
- Government: three district Supervisors · Annex 75 West Cleveland · court 70 West 3rd South
- Sheriff: four years · 2028 · remainder patrol and jail this Sheriff still holds · jail 370 South Washington
- Neighbors: Navajo (Holbrook) · Greenlee · Graham · Catron NM · San Juan NM · San Juan UT · Montezuma CO
- Not Apache Junction · Not a New Mexico hall · Not Window Rock as this county hall · Not Navajo Nation DPS as this Sheriff
What Apache County is not — Window Rock is not this hall
- Not Window Rock as the county hall. Not the Navajo Nation Council as this Board.
- Not Apache Junction. Not Pinal. Not Superstition Mountain as this seat.
- Not a New Mexico Apache County. Not Holbrook as this hall. Not Clifton as this hall.
- Not St. Johns Police as this Sheriff. Not DPS as this oval. Not ADC as this jailer.
- Not Phoenix as this county seat. Phoenix is the capital. St. Johns is the seat.
- Not a campaign flyer.