Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Ganado, AZ

Ganado is a census-designated place (CDP) and a chapter of the Navajo Nation in Apache County, Arizona; its name in Navajo is Lókʼaahnteel.

Ganado lies within the Fort Defiance Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and is the delegate seat for the Navajo Nation Council district that also covers Jeddito, Cornfields, Kinlichee, and Steamboat.

The 2020 census counted 883 residents in Ganado, down from 1,210 at the 2010 census and 1,505 at the 2000 census.

At the 2000 census, Ganado had 422 households, and 55 percent of residents spoke Navajo at home.

Ganado is home to the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, where trader John Lorenzo Hubbell began trading in 1876 and built the most important trading empire on the Navajo Reservation.

The Hubbell post, still operating today, was sold by the Hubbell family to the National Park Service in 1967 and is preserved as an example of a 19th-century reservation trading post; Hubbell is credited with promoting Navajo rugs and silverwork to national markets.

Sage Memorial Hospital, established in 1911 on the Presbyterian mission founded at Ganado in 1901, is described as the first Native-managed private comprehensive health care system in the United States, and its 1930 building, Poncel Hall, is a National Historic Landmark recognized for its pioneering school of nursing for Native American women.

The largest Ancestral Puebloan ruin at Ganado, the Wide Reeds Ruin along Ganado Wash, is believed to have been constructed around 1276.

The CDP covers about 9.15 square miles at an elevation of 6,401 feet and has a semi-arid climate.

Ganado is served by ZIP codes 86505 and 86540.